John C. Maxwell Quotes

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When your great players are team players, everybody else follows their lead. The best team doesn't always win - it's usually the team that gets along best.

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Needless to say, you can love people without leading them, but you cannot lead people without loving them.

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The secret to success can be found in people's daily agendas. If they do something intentional to grow every day, they move closer to reaching their potential. If they don't, their potential slowly slips away over the course of their lifetime.

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Give them your faith, and they become confident, energized, and self-reliant.

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Thank God for the tough times. They are the reason you are there - to be the leader. If everything was going well, the people wouldn't need you!

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Team leaders have to connect with their team and themselves. If they don't know their team's strengths and weaknesses, they cannot hand off responsibilities to the team. And if they don't know their own strengths and weaknesses, they will not hand off responsibilities to the team.

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I can afford to take a risk in my life. Only the insecure cannot afford to risk failure. The secure can be honest about themselves. They can admit failure. They are able to seek help and try again. They can change

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Leaders will not experience long-term success unless a lot of people want them to.

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We are either the masters or victims of our attitudes. It is a matter of personal choice. Who we are today is the result of choices we made yesterday. Tomorrow, we will become what we choose today. To change means to choose change.

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People naturally tend toward inertia. That's why self improvement is such a struggle. But that's also why adversity lies at the heart of every success. The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.

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So think long and hard about who you're spending the most time with, for wherever they are headed, so are you.

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Success each day should be judged by the seeds sown, not the harvest reaped.

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The true measure of leadership is influence - nothing more, nothing less.

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To do something really big, let go of your ego, and get ready to be part of a team.

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People change when they hurt enough that they have to change, learn enough that they want to change, receive enough that they are able to change.

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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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