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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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Motivational Speaker
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Garden City
Michigan
John Maxwell
John Calvin Maxwell
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The bookends of success are starting and finishing. Decisions help us start discipline helps us finish.
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All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others.
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If you treat every person you meet as if he or she were the most important person in the world, you'll communicate that he or she is somebody - to you.
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if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.
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The purpose of leadership is to take others to the top. And when you take others who might not make it to the top otherwise, there's no other feeling like it in the world. To those who have never had the experience, you can't explain it. To those who have, you don't need to.
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The leader continually passes on the vision to those who come around, knowing that dreams, if presented right, are contagious.
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When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened.
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When we trust God, He can make the ordinary extraordinary!
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Be better tomorrow than you are today.
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Live to learn and you will really learn to live.
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Experiences isn't the best teacher - evaluated experience is.
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