Quotes About Community

Ayude a muchas personas a tener éxito, y usted también lo tendrá».

For the person trying to do everything alone, the game really is over. If you want to do something big, you must link up with others. One is too small a number to achieve greatness.

The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.

Secrecy spawns isolation, not success.

MAKE IT YOUR JOB TO PUT OTHER PEOPLE ON TOP TODAY.

When we are fully and totally networked, we are powerful.1 Sanders believes that along with knowledge and compassion, your network is your most valuable asset.

We live in an impatient culture. We use drive-through windows to buy meals, pick up our dry cleaning, complete banking transactions, and order prescriptions. I think Lisa Thorne's comment on my blog describes a lot of us: "The good news is I move fast; the bad news is I often move alone."4 Everybody is in a hurry, but that prevents most of us from connecting with others effectively. If you want to connect with people, you need to slow down.

Remember, none of us is as smart as all of us.

How do the people around you react to the sparks of life? Are they fire lighters who blow things up, or firefighters who calm things down?

Tal como lo dijo la Madre Teresa: «Otro puede hacer lo que yo no puedo hacer. Yo puedo hacer lo que otro no puede hacer. Juntos podemos hacer grandes cosas».

Nothing of significance was ever achieved without people working together.

The bottom line is this: people can usually trace their successes and failures to the relationships in their lives.

Discouraged? Don't be, for the one thing that really matters, lasts forever—your friendships. Life is too long to spend it with people who pull you in the wrong direction. And it's too short not to invest in others. Your relationships will define you. And they will influence your talent—one way or the other. Choose wisely. —

When you connect with others, you position yourself to make the most of your skills and talents.

Sociologists tell us that even the most introverted individual will influence ten thousand other people during his or her lifetime! This amazing statistic was shared with me by my associate Tim Elmore.

Leadership isn't about winning. It's about bringing people with you to the finish line.

Everything we do, every accomplishment we have, every milestone we pass has come in part because of the efforts of others.

I greet you in the name of the Living God, the woman in pink says.

And do something positive in your corner of the world.

If you don't know how to add to others, then you probably subtract by default.

the difference between who you are today and who you will be in five years will be the people you spend time with and the books you read. The

Servant leaders should listen without judgment, be authentic, build community, share power, and develop people.6

poet Edwin Markham wrote, There is a destiny that makes us brothers None goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own.

My Influence My life shall touch a dozen lives Before this day is done. Leave countless marks of good or ill, E'er sets the evening sun. This, the wish I always wish, The prayer I always pray; Lord, may my life help others' lives It touches by the way.7