John C. Maxwell Quotes

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Like every person, every thought has the potential to become something great.

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Connecting is the ability to identify with people and relate to them in a way that increases your influence with them.

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Our attitudes cannot stop our feelings, but they can keep our feelings from stopping us.

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If you desire to become a more generous person, don't wait for your income to change. Change your heart.

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If you want to reach your potential and become the person you were created to be, you must do much more than just experience life and hope that you learn what you need along the way. You must go out of your way to seize growth opportunities as if your future depended on it. Why? Because it does. Growth doesn't just happen--not for me, not for you, not for anybody. You HAVE TO go after it.

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The purpose of leadership is to take others to the top. And when you take others who might not make it to the top otherwise, there's no other feeling like it in the world. To those who have never had the experience, you can't explain it. To those who have, you don't need to.

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Nothing is as hard as it looks; everything is more rewarding than you expect; and if anything can go right it will and at the best possible moment.

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God has put a dream inside you. It's yours, and no one else's. It declares your uniqueness. It holds your potential. Only you can birth it. Only you can live it. Not to discover it, take responsibility for it, and act upon it is to negatively affect yourself as well as all those who would benefit from your dream.

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When a leader is upbeat in the face of discouraging circumstances, others admire that quality and want to be like her.

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A team doesn't win the championship if its players are working from different agendas.

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I've never known a person focused on yesterday to have a better tomorrow.

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Never allow others to think you always have the best answers. This will only make them dependent on you.

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Cooperation is working together agreeably... Collaboration is working together aggressively; and theres a world of difference between those two.

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Nothing speaks like results. If you want to build the kind of credibility that connects with people, then deliver results before you deliver a message. Get out and do what you advise others to do. Communicate from experience.

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No matter what you are currently able to do, creativity can make you capable of more.

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A dream is an inspiring picture of the future that energizes your
mind, will, and emotions, empowering you to do everything you can to
achieve it.

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If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

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The ultimate step in taking responsibility is making sure our actions line up with our words.

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Every day I will renew my commitment and think about the benefits that come from it.

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The greatest detriment to many people's success tomorrow is their thinking today.

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Success is a continuing thing. It is growth and development. It is achieving one thing and using that as a stepping stone to achieve something else.

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To be successful, you can't just run on the fast track; run on your track.

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As you interact with others, remember this: anytime a person's response is larger than the issue at hand, the response is almost always about something else.

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Nothing is more difficult to accomplish than changing outward actions without changing inward feelings.

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If you are willing to change your thinking, you can change your feelings. If you change your feelings, you can change your actions. And changing your actions - based on good thinking - can change your life.

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Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking.

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You have no control over how much talent you possess. You control only what you do with it.

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The english word thanks comes from the same root word as think. Maybe if leaders were more 'think-ful' about the contribution of others, they would be more 'thankful' to them.

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Any leader who asks the right questions of the right people has the potential to discover and develop great ideas.

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The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.

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