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If you live life with the intention of making a difference in others' lives, your life will be full not empty.

If you live life with the intention of making a difference in others' lives, your life will be full not empty.

John C. Maxwell
Live Life, Differences, Live Your Life

Everyone gets discourages...The question is: Are you going to give up or get up? It's a choice.

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Giving Up, Motivation, Choices

Teams make you better than you are, multiply your value, enable you to do what you do best, allow you to help others do their best, give you more time, provide you with companionship, help you fulfill the desires of your heart and compound your vision and effort.

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Leadership, Teamwork, Heart

If you travel alone, you can probably go faster. But the journey will never be as rewarding, and you probably won't be able to go as far.

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Inspirational, Positive, Journey
John C. Maxwell (2005). “Winning with People Workbook”, p.175, Thomas Nelson Inc

Your attitude determines your actions, and your actions determine your accomplishment.

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Attitude, Accomplishment, Action
John C. Maxwell (2002). “Your Road Map For Success Workbook: You Can Get There From Here”, p.54, Thomas Nelson Inc

The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.

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Thinking, Enemy, Good Thinking
John C. Maxwell (2011). “The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization”, p.68, Thomas Nelson Inc

Everyone who got where he is started where he was.

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Preparation
John C. Maxwell (2002). “Your Road Map For Success: You Can Get There from Here”, p.99, Thomas Nelson Inc

A person who has a dream knows what he is willing to give up in order to go up.

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Dream, Giving Up, Order
John C. Maxwell (2002). “Your Road Map For Success: You Can Get There from Here”, p.26, Thomas Nelson Inc

A leader who loves status quo soon becomes a follower.

John C. Maxwell
Leader, Followers, Status Quo

I say this in the book [Today Matters], we either spend our day repairing or preparing, and if I haven't taken good care of my today's, they accumulate. So all of a sudden today what I'm doing is I'm going back, I'm repairing bad relationships and wrong decisions, and I'm digging a hole. I'm not making any progress because I'm in a repairing mode, versus if I really make today count that prepares me for tomorrow. Tomorrow really will take care of itself if I do the right thing today.

John C. Maxwell
Book, Taken, Bad Relationship

We won't fully experience joy until we've answered life's biggest question: Why am I here?

John C. Maxwell
Joy

Talent allows people to stand out, but their wrong choices make them sit down.

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People, Choices, Talent

Deciding what to be is more important than deciding what to do.

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Important, Deciding What To Do
John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.120, Thomas Nelson Inc

The best leaders are humble enough to realize their victories depend upon their people.

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Humble, People, Leader

The leader is there for the people, not the people for the leader

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People, Leader

If you want to help others and become a person of influence, keep smiling, sharing, giving, and turning the other cheek.

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Helping Others, Giving, Keep Smiling
John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan (1997). “Becoming a Person of Influence: How to Positively Impact the Lives of Others”, p.108, Thomas Nelson Inc

All things being equal, attitude wins. All things not being equal, attitude sometimes still wins.

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Attitude, Winning, Sometimes

When you reflect, you are able to put an experience into perspective... reflective thinking enables you to distance yourself from the intense emotions of particularly good or bad experiences and see them with fresh eyes.

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Inspirational, Distance, Eye

Anyone can steer a ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course

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Leader, Ships, Courses
John C. Maxwell (2011). “The Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc

The leader’s Attitude is like a thermostat for the place she works. If her attitude is good, the atmosphere is pleasant, and the environment is easy to work in. But if her attitude is bad, the temperature is insufferable.

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Attitude, Leader, Atmosphere
John C. Maxwell (2011). “The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization”, p.164, Thomas Nelson Inc

Coming together is a beginning, and staying together is progress, but only when teams sweat together do they find success.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Teamwork, Sweat

Every relationship in your organization will affect you one way or another. Those who do not increase you will inevitably decrease you.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Organization, Way

As a leader, you have to take responsibility for your own failures as well as successes. That's the only way you'll learn. If you keep learning, you'll improve. If you improve, your leadership will get better. And in time, you will earn the right to lead on the level you deserve.

John C. Maxwell
Responsibility, Leader, Get Better
John C. Maxwell (2010). “The Right to Lead: Learning Leadership Through Character and Courage”, p.113, Thomas Nelson Inc

Speak the truth. Transparency breeds legitimacy.

John C. Maxwell
Inspirational, Speak, Legitimacy

The Visalus Founders are the finest and sharpest young leaders that I have ever met.

John C. Maxwell
Leader, Finest, Mets

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