Over the last twenty years we’ve been stirred, inspired, challenged and instigated while sitting a the feet of the world class speakers of Lifework Leadership.

This post is a list of quotes from 20 of our most beloved presenters.

1. Jim Seneff – “Simplicity on this side of complexity is simple mindedness. Simplicity on the other side of complexity is genius.”

2. Bill Pollard – “Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.”

3. Bob Lupton – “A relationship founded on one’s giving and the other’s need never yields healthy outcomes. Even raising our own children teaches us that independence is the course toward which we must steer them if they are to become healthy, responsible, adults. Love toward our children that does not require responsibility is pathological. It is no different in loving the poor.

4. Tony Campolo – “When I call people to commit their lives to Christ,” he says, “it is primarily in order that God might use them in this life to do the work that needs to be done. I try to get people to give themselves over to Jesus so that Jesus can take them and put them into law, business, the arts, and to government, to be agents of change.” From the August 2005 Issue of The Progressive By John Oliver Mason

5. Ravi Zacharias – “There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.”

6. Rick Warren – “You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.”

7. Steve Brown – “You ought to live your life with such freedom and joy that uptight Christians will doubt your salvation.”

8. Ken Blanchard – In the past a leader was a boss. Today’s leaders must be partners with their people… they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

9. Dan Cathy – Capitalism should be driving positive social change.

10. Os Guinness – Do we strive to prove our own significance? To make a difference in the world? To carve our names in marble on the monuments of time? …We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone. We are not called first to special work but to God. The key to answering the call is to be devoted to no one and to nothing above God himself….

11. Doug Holladay – As one writer observed, ‘Life is fired at you point blank.’ No doubt, being a business owner and/or leader is tougher and less forgiving today than at any time previous. As human beings, we often make bad decisions when we are doing so in isolation, without the benefit of outside perspective.

12. Tim Keller – “Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts… It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.”

13. Gordon MacDonald – “If my private world is in order, it will be because I have chosen to press sabbath peace into the rush and routine of my daily life in order to find the rest God prescribed for Himself and all of humanity.”

14. Mark Miller – Every team has two agendas. There is a task agenda and their is a social agenda. You need to understand both. You need to honor both. And you need to pursue both.

15. John Aden – Extraordinary influence has nothing to do with our skills and everything to do with obedience.

16. John Maxwell – “If you increase your influence, you increase your leadership.”

17. Dave Rae – Every time you go to the Bible, open it up and expect God to speak to you.

18. Sandy Shugart – “Your most important work, your first work, is your interior work”

19. Don Sodequist – Trust is the basis of all relationships. If you lose trust and people don’t trust you, you will not have a relationships that is a healthy relationship.

20. Bonnie Wurzbacher – Growing up, I thought a calling meant full-time Christian service. I’ve since learned that any vocation can glorify God and that a calling is the intersection of your strengths and interests coupled with where God wants or needs you most—a place that may change over the course of your life.