John C. Maxwell Quotes

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
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Big Correct Enough Man Mistake Profit Smart Strong
Nothing speaks like results. If you want to build the kind of credibility that connects with people, then deliver results before you deliver a message. Get out and do what you advise others to do. Communicate from experience.
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Advice Build Communication Connection Experience Kind People Result Talk Yourself
Find 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.
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Happiness Inspirational Learning Motivational Pay People Price Success Yourself
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
Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.
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Determination Life Past Result Thinking 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
The highway of life is filled with flat squirrels that couldn’t make a decision.
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Animal Decision Funny Life
To be an influencer, you have to love people before you can try to lead them.
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Influence Leadership Love People Try Yourself
Time 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.
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Beyond Control Leadership Live Management Priority Time
If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.
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Inspirational Right Start Success Yourself
People who blame others for their failures never overcome them. They simply move from problem to problem. To reach your potential, you must continually improve yourself, and you can’t do that if you don’t take responsibility for your actions and learn from your mistakes.
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Action Blame Failure Improvement Learning Mistake People Potential Problem Responsibility Simplicity Yourself
If your habits don’t line up with your dream, then you need to either change your habits or change your dream.
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Change Dreams Habit Need Yourself
True success is obeying God.
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God Obey One Liner Success True
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don’t want to make mistakes.
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Action Kind Mistake People Work World
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
It’s better to prepare than to repair.
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Better Motivational One Liner Preparation Repair
The true measure of your character is what you would do if you were sure no one would ever find out.
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Character Oneself True
The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.
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Better Compare Goal Improvement Mission Oneself Yourself
Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.
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Deep Future Hope Present
Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
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Influence Leadership Life Position
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 have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.
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God Live Need People Yourself
God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.
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Choice God Journey Yourself
Commitment comes as a result of choice, not conditions.
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Choice Commitment Condition Result
Successful people don’t have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.
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Deal Different Mindset People Problem Success
Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
JOHN C. MAXWELL

Influence Leadership Life Position
God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.
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Choice God Journey Yourself

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