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Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them. Stop failing backward and start failing forward!

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
Question
Stop
Start
Backward
Problem
Forward
Going
Failing
Life
Deal
Problems
Deals

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