“As Michel de Montaigne observed, “No wind favors him who has no destined port.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility . . . In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.”
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John C. Maxwell
“What you are speaks so loudly that I can’t hear what you say.” —RALPH WALDO EMERSON”
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John C. Maxwell
“You can't move people to action unless you first move them with emotion.... The heart comes before the head.”
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John C. Maxwell
“You cannot change your life until you change something you do every day.”
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John C. Maxwell
“The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth.”
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John C. Maxwell
“The reality is that you will never get much done unless you go ahead and do it before you are ready.”
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John C. Maxwell
“The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him but the number of people he serves.”
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John C. Maxwell
“people with charisma possess an outward focus instead of an inward one. They pay attention to other people, and they desire to add value to them.”
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John C. Maxwell
“A CHECKLIST FOR CHANGE Below are the questions you should review before attempting changes within an organization. When the questions can be answered with a yes, change tends to be easier. Questions that can only be answered with no (or maybe) usually indicate that change will be difficult. YES NO ____ ____ Will this change benefit the followers? ____ ____ Is this change compatible with the purpose of the organization? ____ ____ Is this change specific and clear? ____ ____ Are the top 20 percent (the influencers) in favor of this change? ____ ____ Is it possible to test this change before making a total commitment to it? ____ ____ Are physical, financial, and human resources available to make this change? ____ ____ Is this change reversible? ____ ____ Is this change the next obvious step? ____ ____ Does this change have both short- and long-range benefits? ____ ____ Is the leadership capable of bringing about this change? ____ ____ Is the timing right?”
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John C. Maxwell
“There is definitely a link between ownership and success. You don’t get the latter without the former,”
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John C. Maxwell
“To reach your potential you must grow. And to grow, you must be highly intentional about it.”
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John C. Maxwell
“If you want to reach your potential and become the person you were created to be, you must do much more than just experience life and hope that you learn what you need along the way. You must go out of your way to seize growth opportunities as if your future depended on it.”
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John C. Maxwell
