John C. Maxwell - Success Quotes

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Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve, you have to win the war in your thinking first. You can't let the failure outside you get inside you.

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If you are a leader, the true measure of your success is not getting people to work. It's not getting people to work hard. It is getting people to work hard together. That takes commitment.

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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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Leaders who practice the Law of Victory believe that anything less than success is unacceptable. And they have no Plan B.

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The bookends of success are starting and finishing. Decisions help us start; discipline helps us finish.

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The best way to ensure success is to start growing today. No matter where you may be starting from, don't be discouraged; everyone who got where he is started where he was.

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No one stands taller in the climb to success than when he bends over to help up someone else.

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Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation for success.

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Achievement comes to someone when he is able to do great things for himself. Success comes when he empowers followers to do great things with him. Significance comes when he develops leaders to do great things for him. But a legacy is created only when a person puts his organization into the position to do great things without him.

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Success is a continuing thing. It is growth and development. It is achieving one thing and using that as a stepping stone to achieve something else.

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The greatest detriment to many people's success tomorrow is their thinking today.

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

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

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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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One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish much. Success is the result of people pulling together to meet common goals.

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Without love, there can be no connection, no future, and no success together.

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Tenacious people don't rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working.

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

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Success doesn't come instantly. Neither does the ability to lead.

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Success is choosing to enter the arena of action, determined to give yourself to the cause that will better humanity and last for eternity.

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Connecting is vital for any person who wants to achieve success. It is essential for anyone who wants to build great relationships. You will only be able to reach your potential-regar dless of your profession or chosen path-when you learn to connect with other people.

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Integrity is the human quality most necessary to business success.

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Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

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One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.

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Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success.

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Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for inspiration. 4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity. 5) Dream big. 6) Plan your priorities. 7) Give up to go up.

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Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.

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Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

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Success is... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.

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