Most of the accomplishments I’ve achieved in life I began to attempt before I was really ready. When I was teaching pastors leadership in 1984 and they asked for ongoing teaching, I wasn’t ready to give it to them. But during a conference with thirty-four people in Jackson, Mississippi, I decided to pass around a legal pad and get the contact information for anyone who wanted to receive a monthly leadership tape. All thirty-four signed up. Was I ready to start a monthly leadership subscription series? No. Did I start it anyway? Yes. When I needed to raise money to relocate my church, did I know how to do it? No. Did I start to do it anyway? Yes. When I founded EQUIP to teach leadership to people in countries around the world, did I have a proven strategy to get it done? No. Did we get started anyway? Yes. Nobody ever got ready by waiting. You only get ready by starting. – John Maxwell

Integrity is like virginity, once it is gone, it is gone for good.

His very strength that He has given us has been to bear the burdens of the weaker ones. His ability has been given to us for the benefit of those who lack ability. There will always be the weak and the inefficient. They will ever be learning but never coming to the reality of redemption. Because of this we must go out and serve the unworthy and the selfish, give ourselves as He gave Himself for us. He did not die for the righteous. He died for the unrighteous. He died for the ungodly. He died for men and women who have gone wrong, who have nothing to give Him but a shattered life. — E.W. Kenyon

Ministry is too sacred to be motivated by gain. It is too difficult to be motivated by duty. Only love can sustain us. — John Maxwell

I was always going somewhere and never truly enjoying anywhere. I was deceived by thinking that I would have joy when I arrived – that now was a time of sacrifice and hard work. I have come to the conclusion that there is nothing as tragic as being alive and not enjoying life. — Joyce Meyer

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. — Teddy Roosevelt

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with family. Live life so completely that when death comes to you like a thief in the night, there will be nothing left for him to steal. — Anonymous

Use me God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself. — Martin Luther King Jr.