Calling
"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Change
"No one gets ahead by copying the status quo." (Tom Kelley)
"If nothing in your ministry has changed in the past year, you're not keeping up." (Leonard Sweet)
"I've always believed that when the rate of change inside an institution becomes slower than the rate of change outside, the end is in sight." (Jack Welch)
Character
"Your character is who you truly are. It will impact how much you accomplish in your life. It will make or break every one of your relationships. It is more far-reaching than your talent, your education, your background, or your network of friends. Those things can open doors for you. Your character will determine what happens when you pass through those doors." (Andy Stanley)
Church
"If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century. Every day I meet young people whose disappointment with the church has turned into outright disgust." (Martin Luther King Jr.)
Communication
"The biggest problem with leadership communication is the illusion that it has occurred." (Boyd Clarke and Ron Crossland, The Leader's Voice)
Courage
"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision." (Peter Drucker)
"What I am is good enough if only I would be it openly." (Carl Rogers)
"Be bold, be free, be truthful." (Brenda Ueland)
"When you're faced with a decision, always choose the bolder option. The most extraordinary things are created by ordinary people." (Simon Walker)
Creativity
"Jesus mastered the dominant media forms of his day." (Leonard Sweet)
Criticism
"If you live in fear of criticism, you will never achieve God's vision for your life and church." (Ed Young, Can We Do That?)
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly...who knows great enthusiasm, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known neither victory nor defeat." (Teddy Roosevelt)