Quotes from Jon Gordon

that there were two main reasons why people complained: (1) because they were fearful and helpless and (2) because it had become a habit.

courage is the difference between dreaming of the life you want and living the life of your dreams

A man goes to the village to visit the wise man and he says to the wise man, "I feel like there are two dogs inside me. One dog is this positive, loving, kind, and gentle dog and then I have this angry, mean-spirited, and negative dog and they fight all the time. I don't know which is going to win." The wise man thinks for a moment and he says, "I know which is going to win. The one you feed the most, so feed the positive dog.

The key to success is to be a lifelong learner who continuously works hard to improve.

one negative teammate can sabotage a team. One person can't make a team but one person can break a team.

After all, every team in the league has the same goals so it's not your goals that will lead to your success but your commitment to the process, one game at a time, that will define your season.

No challenge can stop you if you have the courage to keep moving forward in the face of your greatest fears and biggest challenges. Be courageous.

To build a winning team you must create a positive culture where negativity can't breed and grow, and the sooner you start weeding it from your team the stronger and more positively contagious your culture and team will be.

You must spend more time on building your culture than on everything else. Culture is what produces wins over time.

Many say, 'Show me God and I will trust you.' But it works the other way. When you trust, God will show you.

It's about mental toughness. Mental toughness is everything.

Culture drives expectations and beliefs; expectations and beliefs drive behavior; behavior drives habits; and habits create the future. It all starts with culture.

I realize that not everyone is willing to pay the price, and that's okay. It's just that I'm not willing to waste my time on someone unless they want it as much as I want it for them.

So be confident that victory is yours and yet walk humbly each day, relying on God to receive this victory.

Let your complaints about problems move you to solutions.

what we need the most we resist the most.

But I do know that if you want to change your situation you must first change your thoughts. Because if you keep on thinking what you have been thinking you'll keep on getting what you have been getting.

When leaders become focused on the fruit instead of the root and worry about the outcome instead of the process of developing team members, they may survive in the short run, but they will not thrive in the long run.

Stop being disappointed about where you are and start being optimistic about where you are going.

You want to be a passionate leader who makes decisions that are based on belief and principle over those that are based on feeling.

To build a winning team, you must help your players and staff have amnesia about past outcomes and remember all the little things they did to get better.

The past has to be viewed as a springboard to the future.

She decided that the greatest gift she could give her children would not be wealth or material things, but rather the gifts she could leave in them. In their hearts, in their minds, in their attitudes toward life

Don't compare the success of your bus to other buses. Just enjoy your ride.