The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.
JOHN C. MAXWELLThe only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.
JOHN C. MAXWELLSuccessful people don’t have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.
JOHN C. MAXWELLFailing 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.
JOHN C. MAXWELLTime management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.
JOHN C. MAXWELLThe greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.
JOHN C. MAXWELLGod doesn’t move until we move first.
JOHN C. MAXWELLFind something you like to do so much that you would gladly do it for nothing; then learn to do it so well that people are happy to pay you for it.
JOHN C. MAXWELLThere are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don’t want to make mistakes.
JOHN C. MAXWELLYour goal as a leader isn’t to be indispensable to the people you lead; it is to leave your people something that is indispensable to them.
JOHN C. MAXWELLIf you don’t change the direction you are going, then you’re likely to end up where you’re heading.
JOHN C. MAXWELLYou can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.
JOHN C. MAXWELLWhere there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.
JOHN C. MAXWELLTo lead yourself, use your head; to lead others, use your heart. Always touch a person’s heart before you ask him for a hand.
JOHN C. MAXWELLThe more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.
JOHN C. MAXWELLFailed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.
JOHN C. MAXWELLIt’s better to prepare than to repair.
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