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A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential

John C. Maxwell

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John C. Maxwell
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 20
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Motivational Speaker
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Garden City
Michigan
John Maxwell
John Calvin Maxwell
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Leadership is evoking in others the capacity to dream.
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What I had been taught all my life was not true: experience is not the best teacher! Some people learn and grow as a result of their experience some people don't. Everybody has some kind of experience. It's what you do with that experience that matters.
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Achievement comes to someone when he is able to do great things for himself. Success comes when he empowers followers to do great things with him. Significance comes when he develops leaders to do great things for him. But a legacy is created only when a person puts his organization into the position to do great things without him.
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You never display your character more clearly than when you speak about the character of others.
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In my leadership conferences, pastors ask, Do you have a vision for my church? Many times they want me to give them a picture of where they should go and what their church should look like. When these pastors do this, I always feel bad.
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If churches would take ownership of a vision, the next pastor who is thinking about coming to that church can see what their vision is and then determine if their vision fits with his or her ministry. If it doesn't, then it would be wrong for that pastor to come to that church.
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