John C. Maxwell Quotes

Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.
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Character Limitation Rise Stop Success Yourself
One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.
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Adversity Journey Key Success
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
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Enough Leadership Motivational Relationship
God doesn’t move until we move first.
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Action God Inspirational Move One Liner Responsibility Work
You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.
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Big Challenge Improvement Inspirational Small Yourself
Discipline – Success doesn’t just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline.
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Discipline Intention Success
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.
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Change Inspirational Life Secret Success Yourself
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
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
Make personal growth a daily priority.
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Growth Improvement One Liner Priority Self Love
Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.
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Better Growth Learning Mistake Pay Price Time Wrong 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 never display your character more clearly than when you speak about the character of others.
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Character Deep Talk Yourself
If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.
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Comfortable Growth Ourselves Struggle
The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.
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Action Better Failure Learning Yourself
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 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
It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.
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Condition Decision Determination Life Ourselves Quality
Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.
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Build Choice Inspirational Life Yourself
You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.
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Determination Easy Encouragement Herself Himself Person Yourself
Give God the first part of every day. Give God the first day of every week. Give God the first portion of your income. Give God the first consideration in every decision. Give God the first place in your life.
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Decision God Life Money Place Yourself
A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
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Courage Fulfill Greatness Himself Leadership Passionate Vision
You will become on the outside, what you believe on the inside.
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Belief Believe Yourself
Do something you hate every day, just for the practice.
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Hate Practice Yourself
It’s good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don’t step out of your gift zone.
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Comfortable Gift Goodness Yourself
We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.
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Reality Reproduction Teaching
I think many people believe the best way they can help others is to criticize them, to give them the benefit of their ‘wisdom.’ I disagree. The best way to help people is to see the best in them.
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Believe Best Myself People See Thinking Wisdom

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