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Want to impress others? Talk about your successes. Want to impact others? Talk about your failures.
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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Even if you've had a negative effect on others in the past, you can turn that around and make your impact a positive one.
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God has put a dream inside you. It's yours, and no one else's. It declares your uniqueness. It holds your potential. Only you can birth it. Only you can live it. Not to discover it, take responsibility for it, and act upon it is to negatively affect yourself as well as all those who would benefit from your dream.
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There is a real hunger for spiritual things in today's culture people are seeking something spiritual, something beyond themselves. That's the good news. The bad news is people are not getting it at church because the church is singing songs, preaching messages, doing programs, and taking offerings for itself.
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We are so blessed, we get hundreds of emails a day that say, “John, I’ve worked this plan for one year and I can really see my growth.” So what I would love is for readers to do that for a year and then email me.
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If you keep your mind active, regularly take on mental challenges, and continually think about the right things, you will develop the disciplined thinking that will help you with whatever you endeavor to do.
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Listen twice as much as you speak.
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Inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of a leader.
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Competence goes beyond words. It's the leader's ability to say it, plan it, and do it in such a way that others know that you know how - and know that they want to follow you.
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Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
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If your job is not making a difference in this world, by all means, get out there and find something else ... You’ll find a sense of making a difference through your work if you simply look for it.
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The average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business.
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A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
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Integrity is the human quality most necessary to business success.
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They can't hurt you unless you let them.
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The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
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Question for God every morning: What is the main event today? What do you want me to focus on today?
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Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.
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We don't grow on accident, we grow on purpose.
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The rallying call to people is to give them hope. When you have hope, that's huge.
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