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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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Everything you now do is something you have chosen to do. Some people don't want to believe that. But if you're over age twenty-one, your life is what you're making of it. To change your life, you need to change your priorities
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The more credible you are, the more confidence people place in you, thereby allowing you the privilege of influencing their lives.
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The best relationships are win-win. Why don't more people go into relationships with that attitude?
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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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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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All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.
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If you show people how much you care and ask questions in a non threatening way, you'll be amazed by how much they'll tell you.
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Ordinary people with commitment can make an extraordinary impact on the their world.
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If I expect great things from my people, they'll go to great lengths to keep from disappointing me.
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I've known people who thought that reaching their potential would come from shoring up their weaknesses. But do you know what happens when you spend all your time working on your weaknesses and never developing your strengths? If you work really hard, you might claw your way all the way to mediocrity! But you'll never get beyond it.
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There are two paths people can take. They can either play now and pay later, or pay now and play later. Regardless of the choice, one thing is certain. Life will demand a payment.
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People of influence understand the incredible value of becoming a good listener.
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People tend to become what the most important people in their lives think they will become.
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Inexperienced leaders are quick to lead before knowing anything about the people they intend to lead. But mature leaders listen, learn and then lead.
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I think many people believe the best way they can help others is to criticize them, to give them the benefit of their 'wisdom.' I disagree. The best way to help people is to see the best in them.
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Few things build a person up like affirmation. According to Webster's New World Dictionary, Third College Edition (Simon and Schuster, 1991), the word affirm comes from ad firmare, which means to make firm. So when you affirm people, you make firm within them the things you see about them. Do that often enough, and the belief that solidifies within them will become stronger than the doubts they have about themselves.
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To really become motivated to succeed, people need to believe they can win.
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People may teach what they know, but they reproduce what they are.
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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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Leaders have two characteristics: first they are going somewhere, and second they are able to persuade other people to go with them.
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An organization cannot increase its productivity-but people can!
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A great leader has the ability to instill within his people confidence in themselves.
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Everyone you know and all the people you meet have the potential to be someone important in the lives of others.
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Find something you like to do so much that you would gladly do it for nothing; then learn to do it so well that people are happy to pay you for it.
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John C. Maxwell
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February 20, 1947
(age 77)
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