John C. Maxwell Quotes

Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.
JOHN C. MAXWELL

Determination Life Past Result Thinking Yourself
Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.
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Deep Future Hope Present
It’s said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others’ mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others’s successes.
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Learning Mistake Person Success Wisdom
Failed 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.
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Change Failure Need Planning Vision Yourself
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.
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Attitude Day Greatness Growth Life Ourselves Responsibility Yourself
Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.
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Achievement Consistency Discipline Greatness Leadership Repeat Slow Time
Negative thinking limits God and our potential.
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God Limitation Negative Potential Thinking
The length and breath of our influence on others are directly related to the depth of our concern for them.
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Breathe Deep Direction Influence
Find your vision, and let it guide you in all that you do. If you lack vision, look inside yourself. Draw on your natural gifts and desires.
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Desire Gift Guide Natural Vision Yourself
The best way to help people is to see the best in them.
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Best Eyes People See Way
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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Change Direction End Journey Travel Yourself
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.
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Influence Inspirational Learning Motivational People Positive Thinking Understand Way
If you don’t try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get.
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Creation Endurance Future Motivational Try Yourself
Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.
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Excuse Leadership Responsibility
When you make a commitment, you create hope. When you keep a commitment you create trust!
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Commitment Creation Hope Trust Yourself
Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
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Alone Food Live Man Need Remember
Your 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.
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Goal Leadership Leaving People
Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing. That’s the Law of Consistency. It doesn’t matter how talented you are. It doesn’t matter how many opportunities you receive. If you want to grow, consistency is key.
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Consistency Discipline Growth Key Motivational Opportunity Talent Yourself
Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.
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Demand Goodness Job Leadership Person Thinking
To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you’re not failing, you’re probably not really moving forward.
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Achievement Adversity Dreams Failure Life Yourself
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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Himself Leadership People Service
If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.
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Accomplishment Action Feeling Patience Wait Yourself
Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.
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Hands Heart Leadership Touch
Never underestimate the power of an encouraging word.
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Encouragement Power Word
You add value to people when you value them.
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People Respect Value Yourself
Your talk talks and your walk talks, but your walk talks louder than your talk talks.
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Inspirational Loud Motivational Talk Walk Word Work Yourself
People can open doors for you, but you must walk through.
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Door Independent Inspirational Open People Walk Yourself

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