John C. Maxwell

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Good people always rise to your level of expectation.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: People
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Time spent with a potential leader is an investment.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leader
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It takes a team to do anything of lasting value
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Team
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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.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Growing
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See what a person is doing every day, day after day, and you'll know who that person is and what he or she is becoming.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Becoming
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Holding a grudge is never positive or appropriate.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Grudge
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Most people who want to get ahead do it backward. They think, 'I'll get a bigger job, then I'll learn how to be a leader.' But showing leadership skill is how you get the bigger job in the first place. Leadership isn't a position, it's a process.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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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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Collection: Christian
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Don’t tell them what you’re going to do - that’s vision. Do what you are going to do – that’s culture.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Vision
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You can't grow and learn if your focus is on finding someone else to blame instead of looking at your own shortcomings.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Focus
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Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.
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Collection: Doe
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Failure is not fatal. Only failure to get back up is.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Weight Loss
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He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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Everything you now do is something you have chosen to do. Some people don't want to believe that. But if you're over age twenty-one, your life is what you're making of it. To change your life, you need to change your priorities
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Life
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People are never able to outperform their self-image.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Self
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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
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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Sometimes we hold on to our possessions because we fear we might run out - life seems scarce. But when we believe that giving is the way to live, we will produce more in the future - life seems abundant.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Running
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No matter your title, people will not follow you if they don’t trust you.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: People
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When I made that statement that the person discovers the secret of their success by their daily agenda, all of a sudden it hit me that if I could teach people to make today count; if I could really teach them what they need to do today to have a good day, that tomorrow would really take care of itself.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Good Day
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The road to success is long and up hill all the way
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Long
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Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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A leader who produces other leaders multiples their influences.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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If you want to do something really big, do it as part of a team.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Team
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Look behind you: What have you learned? Look around you: What is happening to others? Look above you: What does God expect of you? Look besides you: What resources are available to you?
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Doe
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I thought if I was open and honest, it would help the reader to get open and honest, and they also would realize sometimes when you write a book, people think you're an expert and that's not always true.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Book
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Successful leaders have the courage to take action while others hesitate.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Success
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The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Inspirational
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Your emotions are making it difficult for you to accept hard decisions.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Decision
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Attitude ... is the vanguard of your true self.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Attitude
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Leaders will not experience long-term success unless a lot of people want them to.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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Before you can do anything else in the lives of others, you must show them love.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Shows
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Integrity is not so much what we do as much as who we are.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Integrity
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Leadership ability determines a person's level of effectiveness.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
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Goals not only help you develop initial motivation by making your dreams obtainable, but they also help you continue to be motivated and that creates momentum.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Dream
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One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Motivational
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Big-picture thinkers broaden their outlook by striving to learn from every experience. They don't rest on their successes, they learn from them.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Comfort
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Negative thinking creates clouds at critical decision times.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Thinking
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An attitude is: an inward feeling expressed by an outward action.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Attitude
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Negative talking is contagious.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Talking
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Negative thinking hinders others from making a positive response.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Thinking
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Negative thinking keeps us from enjoying life.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Thinking
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Our attitude can give us an uncommonly positive perspective.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Attitude
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Our attitude determines our approach to life.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Attitude
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There is no such thing as a perfect flawless attitude.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Attitude
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We are responsible for our attitudes.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Attitude
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An organization cannot increase its productivity-but people can!
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Organization
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Strong leaders equal strong organizations.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Strong
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Birds of a feather really do flock together.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Bird