John C. Maxwell - Leadership Quotes

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True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from Influence.

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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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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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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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The real test of leadership isn't where you start out. It's where you end up.

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Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.

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People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. Many people who approach the area of vision in leadership have it backwards. They believe that if the cause is good enough, people will automatically buy in and follow. But that's not how leadership works. People don't follow worthy causes; they follow worthy leaders with a cause they can believe in. They buy into the leader first.

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No matter where you are in your leadership journey, never forget that what got you to where you are won't get you to the next level.

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Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

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As a leader, you have to take responsibility for your own failures as well as successes. That's the only way you'll learn.
If you keep learning, you'll improve.
If you improve, your leadership will get better.
And in time, you will earn the right to lead on the level you deserve.

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While personal maturity may mean being able to see beyond yourself, leadership maturity means considering others before yourself.

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If you are in a leadership position, do not rely on your title to convince people to follow you. Build relationships. Win people over. Do that and you will never be a lonely leader.

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The first order of things to be changed is me, the leader. After I consider how hard it is to change myself, then I will understand the challenge of trying to change others. This is the ultimate test of leadership.

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Personal and organizational effectiveness is proportionate to the strength of leadership.

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

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The higher you want to climb, the more you need leadership. The greater the impact you want to make, the greater your influence needs to be. Whatever you will accomplish is restricted by your ability to lead others.

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Leadership ability determines a person's level of effectiveness.

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Management is the process of assuring that the program and objectives of the organization are implemented. Leadership on the other hand has to do with casting vision and motivating people.

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I am convinced more than ever that good communication and leadership are all about connecting. If you can connect with others at every level -one-on-one, in groups, and with an audience-your relationships are stronger, your sense of community improves, your ability to create teamwork increases, your influence increases, and your productivity skyrockets.

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Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team.

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Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess.

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Leadership deals with people and their dynamics, which are continually changing. The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth.

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Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.

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Too often when people think of their journey into leadership, they envision a career path. What they should be thinking about is their own leadership development!

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