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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about themselves, and small people talk about others
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God uses people who fail--'cause there aren't any other kind around.
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First, when we are busy, we naturally believe that we are achieving. But busyness does not equal productivity. Activity is not necessarily accomplishment. Second, prioritizing requires leaders to continually think ahead, to know what's important, to know what's next, to see how everything relates to the overall vision. That's hard work. Third, prioritizing causes us to do things that are at the least uncomfortable and sometimes downright pa..
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It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.
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Ninety percent of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.
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You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight." --Jim Rohn"
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Leaders Who Attract Followers . . . Need to Be Needed Leaders Who Develop Leaders . . . Want to Be Succeeded
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The company owner doesn't need to win. The best idea does.
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humility
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People tend to become what the most important people in their lives think they will become.
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Little progress is better than no progress at all. Success comes in taking many small steps. If you stumble in a small step, it rarely matters. Don't gift wrap the garbage. Let little failures go.
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Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." --Carl Jung"
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Leadership is more disposition than position--influence others from wherever you are.
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Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?
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The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.
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John C. Maxwell |
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Creativity requires a willingness to look stupid.
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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning within your own.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already knew the answer but wish we didn't.
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People with humility don't think less of themselves; they just think of themselves less.
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Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family background; they are measured by the size of their thinking.
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John C. Maxwell |
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Great leaders always seem to embody two seemingly disparate qualities. They are both highly visionary and highly practical.
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To lead yourself, use your head; to lead others, use your heart.
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Nothing will make a better impression on your leader than your ability to manage yourself. If your leader must continually expend energy managing you, then you will be perceived as someone who drains time and energy. If you manage yourself well, however, your boss will see you as someone who maximizes opportunities and leverages personal strengths. That will make you someone your leader turns to when the heat is on.
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Successful people do the things that unsuccessful people are unwilling to do. --JOHN C. MAXWELL
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Attitude is one of the most contagious qualities a human being possesses.
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Thinking is hard work; that's why so few do it.
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A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others. A loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.
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Your thinking, more than anything else, shapes the way you live. It's really true that if you change your thinking, you can change your life.
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If you are a leader, the true measure of your success is not getting people to work. It's not getting people to work hard. It is getting people to work hard together. That takes commitment.
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No, none of these things are the key. When it comes right down to it, I know of only one factor that separates those who consistently shine from those who don't: The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure. Nothing else has the same kind of impact on people's ability to achieve and to accomplish whatever their minds and hearts desire.
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Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.
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Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.
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French essayist Michel Eyquem de Montaigne wrote, "The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little." The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once."
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Good leaders motivate others by their listening skills. We are to: avoid prejudicial first impressions; become less self-centered; withhold initial criticism; stay calm; listen with empathy; be active listeners; clarify what we hear; and recognize the healing power of listening. Then we are to act on what we hear
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You don't really understand people until you hear their life story. If you know their stories, you grasp their history, their hurts, their hopes and aspirations. You put yourself in their shoes. And just by virtue of listening and remembering what's important to them, you communicate that you care and desire to add value.
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When people respect you as a person, they admire you. When they respect you as a friend, they love you. When they respect you as a leader, they follow you.
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The goal of confrontation should be to help, not to humiliate.
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You cannot change your life until you change something you do every day.
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The reality is that you will never get much done unless you go ahead and do it before you are ready.
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Nobody achieves anything great by giving the minimum. No teams win championships without making sacrifices and giving their best.
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John C. Maxwell |
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Leadership is influence--nothing more, nothing less. If you are being salt and light as Jesus commanded, then you have begun to obey God's call to leadership.
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Your attitude, more than your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
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As people gain more authority, they often develop a lack of patience in listening to those under them. A deaf ear is the first indication of a closed mind.
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John C. Maxwell |
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People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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The great men and women of history were not great because of what they earned and owned, but rather for what they gave their lives to accomplish.
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