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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b44de68 | Someone had to go first, show that there was a life to be recorded here, that this place, this new set of possibilities, could inspire a new literature. Cooper set the signpost on the road, and hearty travelers have been following it ever since. | Thomas C. Foster | ||
| b256e4d | Perhaps the purpose of life is forged moment by moment. If you're going to wait till you find something "bigger than that" before you do anything, then you're doing a sixties kind of "I can't do anything till I find myself." | Laura C. Schlessinger | ||
| dbf8076 | If you want to be a leader, the good news is that you can do it. Everyone has the potential, but it isn't accomplished overnight. It requires perseverance. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 7a3ab78 | It is true: most people are more satisfied with old problems than committed to finding new solutions. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 3c1f395 | A great dream with a bad team is nothing more than a nightmare. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| a570f3a | Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 8dbdb37 | German poet Herman Hesse wrote, "If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us." I agree with his viewpoint." | John C. Maxwell | ||
| cbf432b | Getters generally don't get happiness; givers get it. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| becd1f4 | There is no life as empty as the self-centered life. There is no life as centered as the self-empty life. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 770d155 | Instead of trying to be great, be part of something greater than yourself. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| b571348 | Paul the Apostle exhorted, "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others." 74 Make a mental and emotional commitment to look out for the interests of others." | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 9aff711 | Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 822aafd | Leaders see everything with a leadership bias. Their focus is on mobilizing people and leveraging resources to achieve their goals rather than on using their own individual efforts. Leaders who want to succeed maximize every asset and resource they have for the benefit of their organization. For that reason, they are continually aware of what they have at their disposal. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 4690c04 | If at First You Do Succeed, Try Something Harder | John C. Maxwell | ||
| a797302 | Effective teams have teammates who are constantly talking to one another. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 0b9e060 | No one can understand that mysterious thing we call influence . . . yet . . . everyone of us continually exerts influence, either to heal, to bless, to leave marks of beauty; or to wound, to hurt, to poison, to stain other lives. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 80c324f | The problem with popular thinking is that it doesn't require you to think at all." --Kevin Myers" | John C. Maxwell | ||
| ef2abd8 | We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all." --Donald M. Nelson" | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 4e6752c | Any married man should forget his mistakes--there's no use in two people remembering the same thing. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 7e44aca | greatest enemy to tomorrow's success is sometimes today's success. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| bc36ae8 | President Abraham Lincoln said, "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." | John C. Maxwell | ||
| aa61034 | If you want to reach your potential and become the person you were created to be, you must do much more than just experience life and hope that you learn what you need along the way. You must go out of your way to seize growth opportunities as if your future depended on it. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 3cb60c2 | Action is what converts human dreams into significance. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| e70d6ec | A person who has a dream knows what he is willing to give up in order to go up. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 200a7a8 | Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 38d45cb | What you make of life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need - what you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours. Stay mindful of your choices! | John C. Maxwell | ||
| d229628 | people with a positive attitude focus their time and attention on solutions, not problems. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| d4e0d59 | A dream requires a partner: commitment. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 4cc27c6 | You cannot kindle afire in any other heart until it is burning within your -ELEANOR DOAN | John C. Maxwell | ||
| f04b3f7 | you can act your way into feeling long before you can feel your way into action. If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 01d67d7 | There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 484e051 | Success is . . . knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 824b5d3 | Mark Twain said, "We should be careful to get out of an experience all the wisdom that is in it--not like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again--and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore." | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 5c48388 | If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then realize that you are its author. Every day you have the chance to write a new page in that story. I want to encourage you to fill those pages with responsibility to others and yourself. If you do, in the end you will not be disappointed. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 73a06b4 | Those things that hurt, instruct." --Benjamin Franklin" | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 1f3d0ae | If you know who you are, make the changes you must in order to learn and grow, and then give everything you've got to your dreams, you can achieve anything your heart desires. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 957c932 | The Right Thought plus the Right People in the Right Environment at the Right Time for the Right Reason = the Right Result | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 1621b31 | Leadership is responsible. Losing is unacceptable. Passion is unquenchable. Creativity is essential. Quitting is unthinkable. Commitment is unquestionable. Victory is inevitable. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 55f9f4e | Don't worry about making friends; don't worry about making enemies. Worry about winning, because if you win, your enemies can't hurt you, and if you lose, your friends can't stand you. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| fa95105 | If you keep nonproductive people, the productive ones become frustrated and leave. If you remove the people who don't add value, then the whole team gets better. It's just like trimming trees: If you don't cut the deadwood, eventually the whole tree falls. But if you remove the deadwood, the tree becomes healthier, the healthy branches produce more, and there's room for productive new branches on the tree. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 0f5a3dc | What's true for a teammate is also true for the leader: If you don't grow, you gotta go. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| cd9ce9d | Sometimes we are afraid because success puts pressure on us to continue to succeed. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 72c77dc | If I wanted to make a difference... Wishing for things to change wouldn't make them change. Hoping for improvements wouldn't bring them. Dreaming wouldn't provide all the answers I needed. Vision wouldn't be enough to bring transformation to me or others. Only by managing my thinking and shifting my thoughts from desire to deeds would I be able to bring about positive change. I needed to go from wanting to doing. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 52b8e03 | isn't fair. It isn't going to be fair. Stop sniveling and whining and go out and make it happen for you." Wishing that a risk wasn't yours to take won't make it any easier. In fact, it might make it harder. Your attitude about it is your choice." | John C. Maxwell |