“President Abraham Lincoln said, “I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
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John C. Maxwell
“If you don’t change the direction you are going, then you’re likely to end up where you’re heading…”
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John C. Maxwell
“The unexamined life is not worth leading.” I would add that the unexamined leader is not worth following.”
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John C. Maxwell
“This helps me ‘keep the main thing, the main thing,’ since I am so easily distracted.” You may want to do something similar,
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John C. Maxwell
“The younger you are, the more likely you will give your attention to many things. That’s good because if you’re young you’re still getting to know yourself, your strengths and weaknesses. If you focus your thinking on only one thing and your aspirations change, then you’ve wasted your best mental energy. As you get older and more experienced, the need to focus becomes more critical. The farther and higher you go, the more focused you can be—and need to be.”
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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
“More than anything else, what keeps a person going in the midst of adversity is having a sense of purpose. It is the fuel that powers persistence.”
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John C. Maxwell
“You cannot harvest life’s rewards without first planting seeds
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John C. Maxwell
“If you wouldn't follow yourself, why should anyone else?”
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John C. Maxwell
“Winning teams have players who put the good of the team ahead of themselves. They want to play in their area of strength, but they’re willing to do what it takes to take care of the team. They are willing to sacrifice their role for the greater goal.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Four Unpardonable Sins of a Communicator”: being unprepared, uncommitted, uninteresting, or uncomfortable.”
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John C. Maxwell
“You can’t take the team to the next level when you haven’t mastered the skills it takes to succeed on a personal level.”
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John C. Maxwell
“People who think they’re leading but have no one following them are only taking a walk.”
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John C. Maxwell
“It doesn’t matter what job you do or what position you obtain; you will have limits. That’s just the way life is.
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John C. Maxwell
“Before you get out of bed every morning, say ‘do it now’ fifty times. At the end of the day before you go to sleep, the last thing you should do is say ‘do it now’ fifty times.”
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John C. Maxwell
