Leadership Pain Quotes

“growth equals change; change equals loss; loss equals pain; so inevitably, growth equals pain.”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

“Pain is a part of progress. Anything that grows experiences some pain. If I avoid all pain, I’m avoiding growth.”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

“Leadership is the lifting of a man’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a man’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a man’s personality beyond its limitations. —PETER DRUCKER”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

“Liminal space is a concept in theology and psychology. It is the intermediate, in-between, transitional state where you cannot go back to where you were because a threshold has been crossed, and you have yet to arrive where you are going because it is not yet available to you.”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

“Difficulties are God’s curriculum for those who want to excel.”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

“When you interpret your pain as bigger—more important, more threatening, more comprehensive—than your vision, you’ll redefine your vision down to the threshold of your pain.”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

“How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. —G. K. Chesterton”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

“Change only happens when our level of desire (or actually desperation) rises above the level of our fears.”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

“The art of leadership is understanding what you can’t compromise on.”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

“But emotional numbness can last for years. “And the longer you are detached,” he explained, “the more painful waking up will be. The longer you are asleep, then the more intense the wake-up process. You’ll have to fight through that pins and needles feeling, shake yourself and start circulating again. Because to remain detached is to die. Slowly. Painlessly numb.”15 God”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

“Reluctance to face pain is your greatest limitation. There is no growth without change, no change without loss, and no loss without pain.”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

“pain. If you’re not hurting, you’re not leading. Your vision for the future has to be big enough to propel you to face the heartaches and struggles you’ll find along the way.”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

“Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. —ORISON SWETT M”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

“Never trust a leader who doesn’t walk with a limp. —DR. J. ROBERT CLINTON”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

“You’ll grow only to the threshold of your pain.”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

“Consider the following questions: • Who in your life “gets you” and doesn’t think you’re weak or strange when you wrestle with the complexities of your role? • Who listens to you without feeling compelled to give you advice? • Who asks second and third questions to draw you out instead of giving pat answers, simple prescriptions, and easy formulas? • Who is your safe haven so you can be completely honest and open? • Who fills your spiritual and emotional gas tank?”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

“Yes, being a leader is an incredibly stressful role. The hours are usually long, the pay is often short, and the people are sometimes contentious, but a study by the University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center reports that pastors are the happiest people on the planet, outranking even well-paid and highly respected professions like doctors and lawyers.”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

“In a New York Times article, Stanford professor Robert Sutton commented, “One nasty person can bring down a whole group. That can happen because the group members devote more energy to dealing with the bad apple and less energy to the task at hand. Moreover, anger and hostility are contagious, so the whole group can become infected.”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

“Leaders can do one of three things with those who hold their ladders: retain them because they’re effective, release them because they aren’t, or reassign and retrain them to hold someone else’s ladder. Most”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

“Many people only seek covering when they are in trouble and find themselves trying to deal with long-term problems with short-term friends. Being uncovered isn’t just inconvenient; it’s dangerous. I”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

“When you chart the course of your church toward growth, start with one basic assumption: your efforts to grow are going to create many, many problems. Expect them, anticipate them, and welcome them as God’s instructors.”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

“There is nothing in the world as wonderful as knowing that everything is right with you and the Father, knowing you are forgiven and clean. I don’t mean knowing that you’re going to heaven when you die. I mean knowing that everything in your past and present is in the open. You’ve brought everything into the light. You aren’t hiding anything from God or anyone else. The”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

“Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. —THOMAS CARLYLE”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

“If we give, love, and serve to win approval or gain control over others, we’re not really giving at all; we’re only manipulating people for our benefit.”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

“At some point, you’ll stop seeing pain as the enemy and make peace with it. Like Paul, you’ll see pain as a surprising source of strength. God’s power, Paul learned, “is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:9).”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

“Without a fresh perspective about pain, a compelling vision, and a clear plan, every heartache has the potential to stop you in your tracks.”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

“As we lead organizations—businesses, nonprofits, and churches—size doesn’t matter as much as another crucial factor. The biggest difference between leaders of large organizations and small organizations isn’t their location, the size of their building, the scope of the vision, the number of staff members, or their talent. In fact, some of the best leaders I’ve ever met have small organizations. But in all my consulting and conferences, I’ve seen a single factor: leaders of larger organizations have proven they can handle more pain.”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

“According to a recent survey by the National Association of Church Business Administration, the average pastor in 2012 makes an annual salary of $28,000. One in five has to work a second job to support his family.”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

“Leadership expert Michael Hyatt reflected on Karnazes’s life and drew three conclusions about why we should embrace discomfort: 1. Comfort is overrated. It doesn’t lead to happiness. It makes us lazy—and forgetful. It often leads to self-absorption, boredom, and discontent. 2. Discomfort can be a catalyst for growth. It makes us yearn for something more. It forces us to change, stretch, and adapt. 3. Discomfort is often a sign we’re making progress. You’ve heard the expression, “no pain, no gain.” It’s true! When you push yourself to grow, you will experience discomfort.”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth

“lost perspective, and I lost my identity. I needed close friends and close staff members to remind me of who I was.”
― Samuel Chand, Leadership Pain: The Classroom for Growth