John C. Maxwell Quotes

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Your leadership skills determine the level of your success, and the success of those who work around you.

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Leadership is seeing the possibilities in a situation while others are seeing the limitations.

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Leaders should get out of their comfort zone but stay in their strength zone. When their work lies within their natural gifting and strengths, leaders experience the greatest return in productivity and contentment. Life is too short to live in the comfort zone, where growing and accomplishing and achieving your potential takes a back seat. I suggest you refocus if the comfort zone is your leadership priority.

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The true test of relationships is not only how loyal someone is when we fail, but how thrilled they are when we succeed.

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Motivation is like love and happiness. It's a by-product. When you're actively engaged in doing something, it sneaks up and zaps you when you least expect it.

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Before you can do anything else in the lives of others, you must show them love.

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Deciding what to be is more important than deciding what to do.

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The leader continually passes on the vision to those who come around, knowing that dreams, if presented right, are contagious.

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The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once.

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If you don't try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get.

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To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

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The person who insists on using yesterday's methods in today's world won't be in business tomorrow

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Circumstances do not make you what you are, they reveal what you are.

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Think back to the most important experiences of your life, the highest highs, the greatest victories, the most daunting obstacles overcome. How many happened to you alone? I bet there are very few. When you understand that being connected to others is one of life's greatest joys, you realize that life's best comes when you initiate and invest in solid relationships.

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The more intentional you are about your leadership growth, the greater your potential for becoming the leader you're capable of being. Never stop learning.

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Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. Leaders who are good navigators are capable of taking their people just about anywhere.

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The person with a plan, a picture, will go after thoughts that add value to their thinking.

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The attitude of the leader affects the atmosphere of the office

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Anyone who loves his opinions more than his teammates will advance his opinions but set back his team.

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Integrity is the human quality most necessary to business success.

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If everyone doesn't pay the price to win, then everyone will pay the price of losing.

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You will never be able to bet on yourself unless you believe in yourself.

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When you make a commitment, you create hope. When you keep a commitment you create trust!

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People knowledge is much more important than mere product knowledge.

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Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve, you have to win the war in your thinking first. You can't let the failure outside you get inside you.

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The first important step in weathering failure is learning not to personalize it.

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If you take control of your behavior, your emotions will fall into place.

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Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership.

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If you think you are the entire picture, you will never see the big picture.

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If you don't have the ability to see when to stand up and the conviction to do it, you'll never be an effective leader.

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