Top 160 Orrin Woodward Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.”

— Orrin Woodward

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2. “Success is on the other side of your comfort zone.”

— Orrin Woodward

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3. “Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.”

— Orrin Woodward

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4. “Success is the exponential effect of little things done consistently over time.”

— Orrin Woodward

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5. “Find a victory in every defeat to remain hopeful and find a defeat in every victory to remain humble.”

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6. “Happiness comes from serving others.”

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7. “The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.”

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8. “Quality of work is directly related to the quality of a person’s character.”

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9. “Analysis paralysis occurs when you overthink and underwork.”

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10. “There are no dead ends in life, only dead end thinking.”

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11. “Learn to use the criticism as fuel and you will never run out of energy.”

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12. “Success is assured when a person fears the pain of regret more than the pain of the process.”

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13. “Licking your wounds will not stop the bleeding, but applying pressure will.”

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14. “A leader must inspire or his team will expire.”

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15. “Doubts in your mind are a much greater roadblock to success than obstacles on the journey.”

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16. “Vision is tomorrow’s reality expressed as an idea today.”

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17. “A person that does not value your time will not value your advice.”

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18. “If you fill your head with positive thoughts, there won’t be any room left for negative ones.”

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19. “The first business asset you should invest in is yourself.”

— Orrin Woodward

20. “When the urgent crowds out the important, people urgently accomplish nothing of value.”

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21. “One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.”

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22. “Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound.”

— Orrin Woodward

23. “Attitude is the ability to reframe the experience to empower you to future victories.”

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24. “You can’t make a difference until you dare to be different.”

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25. “Until you accept responsibility for your life, someone else runs your life.”

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26. “Every leader has the courage to make decisions. No decision is usually the worst decision.”

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27. “Winning requires reaching inside of yourself for that extra gear to accelerate challenges.”

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28. “Belief is the magic key that unlocks your dreams.”

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29. “The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream.”

— Orrin Woodward

30. “Success is simple, but isn’t easy because it demands execution, not intentions.”

— Orrin Woodward

31. “To live the life you’ve always wanted, you must confront the issues you’ve always avoided.”

— Orrin Woodward

32. “Never complain about what you permit to be.”

— Orrin Woodward

33. “You can’t lose in sales if you remember that you’re not selling; you’re solving problems.”

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34. “The more prepared you are, the less pressure you feel.”

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35. “Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort.”

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36. “Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications.”

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37. “A passive mindset “manages” to live with mediocre, but an active mindset “leads” to change until excellence results.”

— Orrin Woodward

38. “Few lack talent, but most people lack the vision and perseverance to develop their talents.”

— Orrin Woodward

39. “The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them.”

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40. “Successful people do not have a part-time mindset nor a full-time mindset, but a lifetime mindset.”

— Orrin Woodward

41. “It’s not what you eat that will kill you as much as what is eating you.”

— Orrin Woodward

42. “Our culture says Status is more important than Wealth, but we teach the opposite.”

— Orrin Woodward

43. “Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.”

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44. “Leaders begin with a different question than others. Replacing who can I blame with how am I responsible?”

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45. “People will follow you when you build the character to follow through.”

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46. “Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing.”

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47. “Courage results when one’s convictions are bigger than one’s fears.”

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48. “Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.”

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49. “When your reasons rise above your excuses, so will you.”

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50. “Leverage is the ability to apply positive pressure on yourself to follow through on your decisions even when it hurts.”

— Orrin Woodward