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Ordinary people with commitment can make an extraordinary impact on the their world.
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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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All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.
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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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Acquiring and keeping good people is a leader's most important task.
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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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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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I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.
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What I had been taught all my life was not true: experience is not the best teacher! Some people learn and grow as a result of their experience; some people don't. Everybody has some kind of experience. It's what you do with that experience that matters.
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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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To gain credibility, you must consistently demonstrate three things: Initiative: You have to get up to go up. Sacrifice: You have to give up to go up. Maturity: You have to grow up to go up. If you show the way, people will want to follow you. The higher you go, the greater the number of people who will be willing to travel with you.
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People create success in their lives by focusing on today. It may sound trite, but today is the only time you have. It's too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow. That's why today matters. Most of the time we miss that.
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Difficulties seldom defeat people; lack of faith in themselves usually does it.
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People who blame others for their failures never overcome them. They simply move from problem to problem. To reach your potential, you must continually improve yourself, and you can't do that if you don't take responsibility for your actions and learn from your mistakes.
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Most people use two totally different sets of criteria for judging themselves versus others. We tend to judge others according to their actions. It's very cut-and-dried. However, we judge ourselves by our intentions. Even if we do the wrong thing, if we believe our motives were good, we let ourselves off the hook. And we are often willing to do that over and over before requiring ourselves to change.
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People don't really know whether they are committed to something until they face adversity.
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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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Successful people make right decisions early and manage those decisions daily.
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When you nurture people and add value to them without expecting anything in return, they feel significant.
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People are funny. When they are young, they will spend their health to get wealth. Later, they will gladly pay all they have trying to get their health back.
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People today are desperate for leaders, but they want to be influenced only by individuals they can trust, persons of good character.
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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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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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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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A great leader has the ability to instill within his people confidence in themselves.
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John C. Maxwell
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February 20, 1947
(age 77)
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