John C. Maxwell Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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Leaders need to remember that the point of leading is not to cross the finish line first. It's to take people across the finish line with you. For that reason, leaders must deliberately slow their pace, stay connected to their people, enlist others to help fulfill the vision, and keep people going. You can't do that if you're running too far ahead of your people.

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Only those who see their dream are able to seize their dream.

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Most accomplishments in life come more easily if you approach them strategically

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For years I kept a sign on my desk that helped me maintain the right perspective concerning yesterday. It simply said, 'yesterday ended last night.' It reminded me that no matter how badly I might have failed in the past, it's done, and today is a new day.

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Wanting to win isn't enough. You have to go through a process to improve. That takes patience, perseverance, and intentionality.

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One of the best ways to cultivate a possibility mind set is to prompt yourself to dream one size bigger than you normally do. Let's face it, most people dream too small, they don't think big enough.

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Nobody can motivate himself in a positive direction by continually using negative words.

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Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

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The average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business.

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Become a coach, not a king. A coach brings out the best in others, helping them to reach deep down inside and discover their potential. A king only gives commands.

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If you're always at the head of the class, then you're in the wrong class.

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Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.

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