John C. Maxwell Quotes
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Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.
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Have the humility to learn from those around you.
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Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.
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People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
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Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.
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You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.
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Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person's life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader's style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.
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Most people don't like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.
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The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.
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A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.
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We all have done something unethical.
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Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.
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Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.
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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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Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask 'Why?' ceaselessly.
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Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.
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Without failure there is no achievement.
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Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.
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Leadership is influence.
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Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people's lives.
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The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
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We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.
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Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.
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Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, 'It's a Wonderful Life' tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.