Leadership Summit Quotes

Every year at about this time I get re-energized at the Willow Creek Leadership Summit. This was our third year of hosting the simulcast at Faith. As always, it was incredibly humbling, motivating, energizing & the list goes on. As in years past, I wanted to share a few memorable quotes with you. Here goes...

"Be an 'incessant tinkerer'. Do what you do BETTER! Transformed lives are worth it!" 

- Bill Hybels

"It doesn't matter where you've come from, but where you're going."

- Condoleezza Rice

"It is what you do before the difficult times come. It's how you manage things in the tough times, so that you can be strong when people need you."

- Jim Collins

"Every young person is gifted!"

"Gift + Issue = Better World"

- Marc Kielburger

"Don't just delegate tasks to the next generation, delegate authority so you will develop leaders."

- Craig Groeschel

"A core value is something you're willing to get punished for"

-Patrick Lencioni

"Listen more than you talk"

- William Ury

"We are called to serve with God where He is already at work"

- Pranitha Timothy

"The question we should be asking is not who was this man, but who is this man"

- John Ortberg

"the institution belongs to the people it serves, not to the person leading it."

- Geoffrey Canada

"Everyone wins when a leader gets better!"

-Bill Hybels

What are some of your favorite quotes from this year's Summit? How will you be quoted? Better yet, what does your life speak to others?

Lord, may we all lead better as we serve You & Your church!

Conference Quotes #3

"Not on my watch." - Michelle Rhee

"I tried to create a different culture, a culture where we thought about every single child and every single family in the same way we think about our own." - Michelle Rhee

"I would much rather deal with anger than apathy." - Michelle Rhee

"Speak up for those who cannot speak up for themselves." - Michelle Rhee

"Humility will not automatically make you great. And being great will not make you humble. Humility makes the great greater." - John Dickson

"You don’t need armies to change empires or individuals." - John Dickson

"Sometimes people aren’t going to reward you for doing the dirty work. But you should do it anyway." - Patrick Lencioni

"If you live your life outside of God you are destined for a life of endless repetition and monotony, but when you live in the light of Creation all things become new." - Erwin McManus

"We can’t change history, but we can create the future." - Erwin McManus

"The church needs to reclaim it’s place as the epicenter of creativity" - Erwin McManus

Conference Quotes #2

"We teach our kids to say 'Please & Thank You'. With God, the protocol is the opposite."

Psalm 100:4 "Enter His gates with Thanksgiving, and His courts with praise"

"We thank Him for everything before we ask Him for anything!" - Steven Furtick

"Good ideas don’t make you a visionary, they just make you a day-dreamer if you don’t move to implementation." - Steven Furtick

"We don’t choose where to be born but we choose to be sinners or saints." - Mama Maggie Gorban

"Everyone who carries the fragrance of eternity has to experience the dark valley of death." - Mama Maggie Gorban

"God is looking for some strong-shouldered leaders who are available to take on tough callings." - Bill Hybels

Conference Quotes

"Have you had your leadership bell rung recently?" -Bill Hybels

"Your job is to move your organization from HERE to THERE" -Bill Hybels

"You can’t get There until you make it clear how unacceptable it is Here." -Len Schlesinger (referencing Bill Hybels)

"If all you do is think, you are less interesting as a person. Action trumps everything!" -Len Schlesinger

"If you try and try and try, you get more times at bat and increase the amount of times you succeed." - Len Schlesinger

“Many people will try to seduce you into mediocrity. Don’t fall for it. You were born an original, but most die copies.” -Mayor Cory A. Booker

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” - Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (referenced by Mayor Cory A. Booker)

"If you catch on fire, someone will come watch you burn!" -Rev. Brenda Salter McNeil