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You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.

John C. Maxwell

If you can learn to understand people how they think, what they feel, what inspires them, how they’re likely to act and react in a given situation- then you can motivate and influence them in a positive way.
JOHN C. MAXWELL

Influence Inspirational Learning Motivational People Positive Thinking Understand Way
The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.
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Big Development Focus Goodness Leadership Organization People Potential Way
Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you’ve been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.
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Ability Better Direction Failure Learning Mistake
The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.
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Greatness Patience Wait Yourself
SUCCESS is when I add value to MYSELF. SIGNIFICANCE is when I add value to OTHERS.
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Difference Myself Success Value
Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. How do you gain influence from people? You invest in them. How do you invest in them? It starts with giving them time.
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Influence Investment Leadership People Start Time Yourself
When you are bigger than your purpose you have a career. When your purpose is bigger than you, you have a calling.
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Big Career Purpose Yourself
You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.
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Choice Life Preparation Repair Yourself
Not realizing what you want is a problem of knowledge. Not pursuing what you want is a problem of motivation. Not achieving what you want is a problem of persistence.
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Achievement Knowledge Motivational Persistence Problem Pursue Yourself
If you want to be positive, upbeat, and passionate, you need to take responsibility for being that way.
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Need Passionate Positive Responsibility Yourself
You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.
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Build Integrity Time Trust Yourself
When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened.
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Action Character Feeling Focus Person Strength Value. Thinking
All leaders make mistakes. They are a part of life. Successful leaders recognize their errors, learn from them, and work to correct their faults.
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Correct Leadership Life Mistake Recognition Success Work
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
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Enough Leadership Motivational Relationship
To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday’s hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can’t build a monument to past problems and fail forward.
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Build Failure Hurt Learning Monument Past Problem Tragedy
Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.
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Achievement Attitude Himself Man Positive Quality Success

You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.

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