Orrin woodward quotes

You cannot hear opportunities knocking if you are busy knocking opportunities.

Happiness comes from serving others.

Until you accept responsibility for your life, someone else runs your life.

Leaders do what ought to be done whether their deeds are known by thousands or known by no one.

Leadership isn't what a team says, but what it does.

A low self-image is usually not based upon facts; it's mismanaged memory.

Those who do not study their businesses do not stay in business.

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

Change is a given; growth, however, is optional.

Courage results when one's convictions are bigger than one's fears.

If you fill your head with positive thoughts, there won't be any room left for negative ones.

Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound.

A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms.

You can not become who you want to be until you have changed who you used to be

Simply put, the direct power over the money supply is the indirect power over the people.

Education is a lifetime assignment & terminates when you do.

Leaders speak truth into people who believe lies about themselves.

The passion/hunger of the student brings out the experience/wisdom of the mentor.

When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team.

The ability to focus is the key separation point between those who move ahead and those who fall behind.

If the only thing that you are good at is convincing others that you are good, then being in biz with you is bad experience.

The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.

It's not what you eat that will kill you as much as what is eating you.

Success is on the other side of your comfort zone.

Don't mistake thinking for action & don't mistake action for results.

Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.

One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.

I fear insignificance more than I fear failure.

Without courage, it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are.

Vision is tomorrow's reality expressed as an idea today.

People will follow you when you build the character to follow through.

Unsolved problems on the inside of a person stop success more often than problems on the outside of a person.

A person that does not value your time will not value your advice.

Learn to use the criticism as fuel and you will never run out of energy.

A person who cannot handle setbacks will never handle victories either.

Success is the exponential effect of little things done consistently over time.

It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.

A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.

There are no dead ends in life, only dead end thinking.

Death is only a tragedy when life's purpose was left unfulfilled.

Quality of work is directly related to the quality of a person's character.

Most people over estimate others talents and underestimate their own.

Leadership Principle: As hunger increases, excuses decrease.

Never complain about what you permit to be.

Leaders begin with a different question than others. Replacing who can I blame with how am I responsible?

Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.

You cannot expect your team to rise above your example.

Everyone carries a bucket of water and a bucket of gas in life. A leader has learned to throw the right one at the right time.

If you aren't loyal to the few you won't be blessed with the many.

To live the life you've always wanted, you must confront the issues you've always avoided.

When the urgent crowds out the important, people urgently accomplish nothing of value.

Our culture says Status is more important than Wealth, but we teach the opposite.

If you accept excuses from others, it's usually because you have accepted your own excuse.

You don't feel like a winner and then do; you do like a winner and then feel.

Many times in life, those who do the most correcting, need the most correcting.

The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them.

Success for most people requires unlearning as much as learning.

Licking your wounds will not stop the bleeding, but applying pressure will.

Leaders must see the dream in their mind before they will accomplish the dream with their team.

Most people live with pleasant illusions, but leaders must deal with hard realities.

A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition.

No business can be made easier to do than excuses are to make.

You can succeed beyond the past, but not beyond your belief

You can tell the size of a person by the way he treats people who cannot help him.

You will never realize success on the outside until you can see it clearly o the inside. Success is inside out.

Few lack talent, but most people lack the vision and perseverance to develop their talents.

Belief is the magic key that unlocks your dreams.

Leaders know that the fruit of life is out on a limb.

People love being around those who serve them.

A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.

Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.

If you get your spirit and heart right, everything else flows from there.

You won't acquire external Haters until you've conquered the internal Hater.

Leaders dig into their business to learn painful realities rather than peaceful illusion.

Every uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better.

Attitude is the ability to reframe the experience to empower you to future victories

Success is assured when a person fears the pain of regret more than the pain of the process.

He who controls the fools gold, controls the fools.

Leaders respond & change; the rest quit and blame.

Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing.

Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort.

A leader must inspire or his team will expire.

Analysis paralysis occurs when you overthink and underwork.

Every leader has the courage to make decisions. No decision is usually the worst decision.

Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications.

Leaders don't correct people to success as much as believe them to it.

Winning requires reaching inside of yourself for that extra gear to accelerate challenges.

You won't get ahead until you get off your behind.

The more prepared you are, the less pressure you feel.

The first business asset you should invest in is yourself.

Bad habits: easy to develop and hard to live with. Good habits: hard to develop and easy to live with.

Leverage is the ability to apply positive pressure on yourself to follow through on your decisions even when it hurts.

"Do you have the talent?" is rarely the question. "Do you have the guts to finish?" is the real question.

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.

Successful people do not have a part-time mindset nor a full-time mindset, but a lifetime mindset.

Many people surrender what is possible for what is comfortable.

Find a victory in every defeat to remain hopeful and find a defeat in every victory to remain humble.

The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream.

Your business will only get as big as the shadow of your character.

Leaders who won't own failures become failures.

You either hate losing enough to change, or you hate changing enough to lose.