WN Stanley Quotes

Don’t strive to be a well-rounded leader. Instead, discover your zone and stay there. Then delegate everything else.

You have not been called to change the world, but you have been called to change something.

Vision rarely require immediate action. It requires patience.

The insecure leader will interpret critical thinking as critiscism.

What is your one-sentence job description?

When you start thinking you're a big shot, you wash more feet.

A leader should never risk their ability to make a difference by making an unnecessary point.

Me and Sandra are thoroughly satisfied customers as parents of kids who came through this Orange model.

Generosity helps us cultivate awareness of things that really matter. Opportunities that make a real difference in the world.

Two primary ways to keep volunteers motivated - Food and T-shirts.

If you don't clarify your goal, you'll never identify the best approach.

My kids think you are always supposed to be in a small group and lead one.

We are not all leaders. We are called leaders.

The church must capture and keep the minds and hearts of students.

Fixing things requires change and change always creates conflict. But that is why you are a leader.

Selfless, generous, compassionate living is unassailable.

Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds.

Every story of change there is always someone who didn't have the resources or the network they needed and did something anyway.

Every local church has a leader but it seems so few local churches are being led.

Why? Why did God provide me with more than I need?

When you acknowledge your weaknesses to the rest of the team, it is never new information.

"How" is what kills vision and dreams. Don't ask "How" until we figure out the "What". The "How" can kill the "What".

If there is a perceived difference between what you expect from others and what you expect from yourself, it will eventually erode your influence.

On day one, the Church wasn't for church people because there weren't any church people.

What would bring about a revival of epic proportion?

Uncertainty in a leader is always magnified in the heart of the follower.

There is an inexorable correlation between leadership and change.

Authority does not equal competency.

The value of a life is determined by what we give away.

You can't lead without taking risk.

The reason we're here today is because years ago God broke Reggie Joiner's heart over the state of children.

Believe what you want But don't dumb down what Jesus said.

Will I allow my fear to bind me to mediocrity?

No one ever has the resources they need.

Resources follow vision.

If you're a preacher's kid, you see the church differently.

As your organizational authority increases, your organizational IQ decreases.

The goal of leadership is not to eradicate uncertainty but rather to navigate it.

Whenever there is fear, there is opportunity. When there is great fear, there is great opportunity.

Sometimes it is the destinations out of reach that create the circumstances God uses to remind that we are never out of his reach.

If a leader goes with their gut, it should be after listening first to people they trust.

This is why we give up on things that break our heart because it requires change.

You won't take risk without courage.

Success means your options multiply. Size increases complexity, and complexity can confuse vision.

Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.

Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.

Every time I stand to communicate, I want to take one simple truth and lodge it in the heart of the listener. I want them to know that one thing and know what to do with it.

Purpose should determine approach. At the end of the day, it's what we do, not what we purposed to do, that defines our lives and reputations.

Something I've noticed. Church planters don't pray for revival. They pray for opportunity, favor with the unchurched and leaders.

Leaders love progress.