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Leaders express feelings that other leaders sense.

John C. Maxwell

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John C. Maxwell
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 20
Author
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Garden City
Michigan
John Maxwell
John Calvin Maxwell
Feelings
Express
Leaders
Leader
Sense

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Leaders determine the level of an organization.
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The more that people know how they fit on a team, the more they will desire to properly make the most of their fit and maximize their contribution.
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Good attitudes among players do not guarantee a team's success, but bad attitudes guarantee it's failure.
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Diligent follow-up and follow-through will set you apart from the crowd and communicate excellence.
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The leader's attitude helps determine the attitudes of the followers.
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Anyone can follow a path, but only a leader can blaze one.
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Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. How do you gain influence from people? You invest in them. How do you invest in them? It starts with giving them time.
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The key word in the church community is relationships, you know brother and sister in Christ.
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The true test of relationships is not only how loyal someone is when we fail, but how thrilled they are when we succeed.
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Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all.
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Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you'll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.
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The Wrong Person in the Wrong Place = Regression. The Wrong Person in the Right Place = Frustration. The Right Person in the Wrong Place = Confusion. The Right Person in the Right Place = Progression. The Right People in the Right Places = Multiplication.
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To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward.
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The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.
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One of the best ways to cultivate a possibility mind set is to prompt yourself to dream one size bigger than you normally do. Let's face it, most people dream too small, they don't think big enough.
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It was in the mid-70's, '74 or '75 I started doing leadership conferences for pastors and in '79 I wrote my first book Think On These Things.
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The bookends of success are starting and finishing. Decisions help us start discipline helps us finish.
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The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others – not yourself – first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification. You should ask yourself, What does the team need? Not, What will make me feel better?
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Leadership is influence. It is the ability to obtain followers. When the leader lacks confidence, the followers have no commitment. A leader is great not because of his power, but because of his ability to empower others.
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