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The person who insists on using yesterday's methods in today's world won't be in business tomorrow
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Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.
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A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. By John Maxwell
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A person with an outstanding attitude makes the best of it while he gets the worst of it.
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By choosing to embrace and practice good values every day, you choose the higher course in life. And your life goes in a direction that you will always feel good about. You may not always get what you desire, but you will always be the person you desire to be.
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You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.
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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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If you want to help others and become a person of influence, keep smiling, sharing, giving, and turning the other cheek.
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More than anything else, what keeps a person going in the midst of adversity is having a sense of purpose. It is the fuel that powers persistence.
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As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.
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It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.
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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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Every person has seeds of greatness within, even though they may currently be dormant.
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Show me a person who sees himself negatively and I will show you a person who sees others in a negative way.
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We tend to become what the most important person in our life thinks we will become. Think the best, believe the best, and express the best in others. Your affirmation will not only make you more attractive to them, but you will help play an important part in their personal development.
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If your desire is to be successful or to make a positive impact on your world, you need to become a person of influence.
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A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential
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The Wrong Person in the Wrong Place = Regression. The Wrong Person in the Right Place = Frustration. The Right Person in the Wrong Place = Confusion. The Right Person in the Right Place = Progression. The Right People in the Right Places = Multiplication.
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There is a world of difference between a person who has a big problem and a person who makes a problem big.
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Leadership ability determines a person's level of effectiveness.
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As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.
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A person who has a dream knows what he is willing to give up in order to go up.
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If you want to become a better listener, however you need to learn to direct that energy and attention positively by concentrating on the person you're with.
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Like every person, every thought has the potential to become something great.
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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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The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
John C. Maxwell
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February 20, 1947
(age 77)
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