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A leader can give up anything - except final responsibility.
John C. Maxwell
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John C. Maxwell
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 20
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Garden City
Michigan
John Maxwell
John Calvin Maxwell
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Being one step ahead makes you a leader Being fifty steps ahead could make you a martyr.
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Stay focused instead of getting offended or off track by others.
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If you're going to play together as a team, you've got to care for one another. you've got to love each other.
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If you want to help others and become a person of influence, keep smiling, sharing, giving, and turning the other cheek.
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We over-exaggerate yesterday. We either think it was better or worse than it was - you know, the good old days. We over-estimate tomorrow we think we can do more than we can - always. And that's why we put off everything till tomorrow.
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Since an attitude is often expressed by our body language and by the looks on our faces, it can be contagious.
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Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve, you have to win the war in your thinking first. You can't let the failure outside you get inside you.
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Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.
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Everyone you know and all the people you meet have the potential to be someone important in the lives of others.
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We cannot accomplish as much as we think we can in one day and we can accomplish more than we think we can in a year. Isn't that true?
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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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