If you’ve been to The Global Leadership Summit before, Craig Groeschel is a very recognizable name, having been in our premier faculty lineup since 2008! Traveling the world as the champion of The Global Leadership Summit, we have also been honored to partner with Craig to build leaders in every sector of society.

The decisions you make today will determine the stories you tell tomorrow.

Globally recognized as a leader of leaders, Craig is the founding and senior pastor of Life.Church, a three-time Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award recipient. Known for their missional approach to leveraging the latest technology, Life.Church is the innovative creator of the YouVersion Bible App—installed on more than half a billion unique devices worldwide.

There is so much to learn from Craig Groeschel, especially on how to change your mindset, embrace opportunity and lead through difficult seasons.

The countless nuggets of leadership wisdom he’s shared over the years have helped shape organizations, churches and individuals for the better.

Here are the top 25 quotes from Craig Groeschel:

1. People would rather follow a leader that is real than one that is always right.

1. When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders.

1. Most leaders are trying to figure out the right strategy. The best leaders are obsessed with empowering the right people.

1. As leaders, we may teach what we know, but we reproduce who we are!

1. Unity is not the same as conformity. We have strength in our diversity.

1. Your life is too valuable, your calling too great, and your God too awesome to waste your life on what doesn’t matter.

1. You can have control or you have growth, but you cannot have both.

1. Talent can get you to the top. Only character will keep you there.

1. Don’t try to copy what people do, learn how they think.

1. As followers of Jesus, we don’t just go to church, we are the Church.

1. The decisions you make today will determine the stories you tell tomorrow.

1. The strength of the organization is reflected by how deep into the organization people have the ability to say yes.

1. You may be one relationship away from changing the course of your destiny.

1. The difference between a good leader and a great leader is one who learns to anticipate rather than react.

1. Respect is earned but honor is given.

1. You are not who others say you are. You are who God says you are.

1. If your character is not strengthening, your future is weakening.

1. How bad you want something determines what you will do to get it.

1. If prayer isn’t necessary to accomplish your plans, you aren’t thinking big enough.

1. How you live reflects the reality of what you really believe.

1. Don’t let your “self-talk” talk you out of what God has called you to do.

1. When the leader lacks confidence, the team lacks commitment.

1. The path to public success is always paved with private discipline.

1. One of the greatest enemies of confidence is comparison.

1. God didn’t call me to be important, He called me to be faithful.

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