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If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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The Norwegians have a saying that I think captures their attitude: "There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing."3"
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John C. Maxwell |
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Past hurts can make you bitter or better--the choice is yours.
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John C. Maxwell |
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People don't expect their leaders to be perfect, but they do expect them to be honest. If
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John C. Maxwell |
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When I teach and mentor leaders, I remind them that if they stop learning, they stop leading
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Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities he does not possess.
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John C. Maxwell |
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If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.
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Hell begins on that day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts we wasted, of all that we might have done that we did not do.
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daily-discipline
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The greatest handicap a person has is not realizing his potential.
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limitations
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John C. Maxwell |
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To become a 360-Degree Leader, you will have to pay a price. You will have to give up other opportunities in order to lead. You will have to sacrifice some personal goals for the sake of others. You will have to get out of your comfort zone and do things you've never done before. You will have to keep learning and growing when you don't feel like it. You will have to repeatedly put others ahead of yourself. And if you desire to be a really ..
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It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it." --Stephen Covey"
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John C. Maxwell |
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The greatest enemy of learning is knowing
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John C. Maxwell |
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When you live each day with intentionality, there's almost no limit to what you can do. You can transform yourself, your family, your community, and your nation. When enough people do that, they can change the world. When you intentionally use your everyday life to bring about positive change in the lives of others, you begin to live a life that matters.
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John C. Maxwell |
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Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team. The
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John C. Maxwell |
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If your perception of and response to failure were changed, what would you attempt to achieve?
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John C. Maxwell |
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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
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John C. Maxwell |
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The boss drives his workers; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on goodwill. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says "I"; the leader, "we." The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss knows how it is done; the leader shows how. The boss says, "Go"; the leader says, "Let's go!"
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John C. Maxwell |
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If you know something without having lived it, your audience experiences a credibility gap.
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John C. Maxwell |
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The road to the next level is always uphill, and if a team isn't intentionally fighting to move up, then it inevitably slides down.
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John C. Maxwell |
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people knowledge is much more important than mere product knowledge.
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John C. Maxwell |
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Helen Keller, author, speaker, and advocate for disabled persons, asserted,"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
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John C. Maxwell |
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You just need to be positive, believe in yourself, and focus on others.
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John C. Maxwell |
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My friend Nancy Dornan says, "The longest distance between two points is a shortcut." That's really true. For everything of value in life, you pay a price. As you desire to grow in a particular area, figure out what it will really take, including the price, and then determine to pay it."
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John C. Maxwell |
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Winning teams have players who make things happen.
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John C. Maxwell |
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most people overrate decision making, and they underrate decision managing.
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John C. Maxwell |
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Eleanor Roosevelt said, "One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."
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John C. Maxwell |
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If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much." --JIM ROHN"
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John C. Maxwell |
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Inspirar a otros para hacer un mejor trabajo es el logro de un lider.
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John C. Maxwell |
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Disappointment comes when reality falls short of our expectations. But nothing falls short of God's expectations because He knows everything.
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John C. Maxwell |
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The emotion you continually feed is the one that will dominate your life.
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John C. Maxwell |
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We cannot choose how many years we will live, but we can choose how much life those years will have. We cannot control the beauty of our face, but we can control the expression on it. We cannot control life's difficult moments, but we can choose to make life less difficult. We cannot control the negative atmosphere of the world, but we can control the atmosphere of our minds.
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John C. Maxwell |
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When I want to really get to know someone, I ask three questions. People's answers to these give me great insight into someone's heart. The questions are: What do you dream about? What do you sing about? What do you cry about?
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John C. Maxwell |
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Your attitude colors every aspect of your life. It is like the mind's paintbrush.
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John C. Maxwell |
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Don't let your mandate come from the grumbling of the crowd. Get your cues from God and the mission He has given you.
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John C. Maxwell |
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When leaders fail to empower others, it is usually due to three main reasons: 1. Desire for Job Security 2. Resistance to Change 3. Lack of Self-Worth
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John C. Maxwell |
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He who seeks one thing, and but one, May hope to achieve it before life is done. But he who seeks all things wherever he goes Must reap around him in whatever he sows A harvest of barren regret.
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John C. Maxwell |
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I state in my book Put Your Dream to the Test that the more valid reasons a person has to achieve their dream, the higher the odds are that they will. Valid reasons also increase the odds that a person will follow through with personal growth.
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John C. Maxwell |
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Los resultados hablan mas alto, para nuestros jefes y para aquellos a quienes lideramos.
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John C. Maxwell |
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The key to developing charisma: Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are in making them feel good about you.
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John C. Maxwell |
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THE INSTRUMENT OF LEADERSHIP
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John C. Maxwell |
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Cada uno de nosotros tiene que asumir la responsabilidad por sus propias actitudes
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John C. Maxwell |
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That grumpy woman didn't deserve to be treated kindly. But when she was treated not as she was, but as I wanted her to be and believed she could become, her perspective suddenly changed.
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John C. Maxwell |
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To limit our lives to our past experiences is to cheat ourselves from developing our potential and increasing our possibilities for success. Mark Twain said, "If a cat sits on a hot stove, it will never sit on a hot stove again. Of course, it will never sit on a cold one either." Forget your past failures and begin to enlarge your expectations for tomorrow."
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John C. Maxwell |
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Material handouts are a poor substitute for love and understanding. People don't need more things--they need more tenderness
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John C. Maxwell |