Quotes about Balance

Such sober warnings in the Word of God should impress upon us the importance of keeping our priorities straight: God first, family second, ministry or career third. Only when a leader's relationship to God is right, and only when responsibilities as a family member are being properly met, can the leader be fully faithful in exercising the ministry God has given him or her.

Leaders have to deal simultaneously with people issues and business issues, and they need to be able to do both effectively. That's an art. As you work to develop people, maintain a relational approach, valuing them and adding value to them. At the same time, do what you must to achieve a good bottom line.

When you are able to create a lonely place in the middle of your actions and concerns, your successes and failures slowly can lose some of their power over you.

Care without candor creates dysfunctional relationships. Candor without care creates distant relationships.

Keep first things first; distraction is the enemy of direction.

Only a leader who has followed well knows how to lead others well. Good leadership requires an understanding of the world that followers live in. Connecting with your people becomes possible because you have walked in their shoes. You know what it means to be under authority and thus have a better sense of how authority should be exercised. In contrast, leaders who have never followed well or submitted to authority tend to be prideful, unrealistic, rigid, and autocratic. "Civilization

If you want to be productive, you should try to learn to get joy from what gives the greatest return and discipline yourself to do those things.

Humility is not denying your strengths. Humility is being honest about your weaknesses. All of us are a bundle of both great strengths and great weaknesses and humility is being able to be honest about both.

Limit the effect of any emotional high or low to the twenty-four-hour period that follows the occurrence.

Perhaps we have become too analytical to take decisive action. We may be spending too much time studying our problems and not enough time solving them.

Anytime a relationship is unequal, it cannot last—whether you are giving more than you get or getting more than you deserve.

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.