John C. Maxwell Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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The victor belongs to the spoils.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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Focus on being balanced - success is balance.
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I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
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Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.
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My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
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Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.
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I was not in 'Iron Man 2,' but I take a daily iron supplement.
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Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!
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I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
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The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness - and sometimes sadness - of things we see every day.
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One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.
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Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
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From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting published and continue to write what I wanted to without compromising.
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Nothing is more diminishing than trying to control success or hold on to things.
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I have always believed in helping people whose work I admire.
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I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.
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When people ask, 'What role are you dying to play?' I always say, 'The one being written for me right now.'
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I love exercise, but I find it boring doing the same thing all the time, so I fluctuate between going to the gym, doing Pilates, and taking dance lessons.
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The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.
