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Nurturing has the ability to transform people's lives.

Nurturing has the ability to transform people's lives.

John C. Maxwell
People, Leader, Ability
John C. Maxwell (2010). “A Leader's Heart: 365-Day Devotional Journal”, p.76, Thomas Nelson Inc

If you are in a leadership position, do not rely on your title to convince people to follow you. Build relationships. Win people over. Do that and you will never be a lonely leader.

John C. Maxwell
Motivational, Lonely, Winning
John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.6, Thomas Nelson Inc

For leaders to be effective, they need to connect with people.

John C. Maxwell
People, Leader, Needs
John C. Maxwell (2012). “Law of Connection: Lesson 10 from The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership”, p.9, Thomas Nelson Inc

Personnel determines the potential of the team. Vision determines the direction of the team. Work ethic determines the preparation of the team. Leadership determines the success of the team.

John C. Maxwell
Team, Wrestling, Work Ethic
John C. Maxwell (2003). “The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork Workbook: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team”, p.182, Thomas Nelson Inc

Our attitude can turn our problems into blessings.

John C. Maxwell
Attitude, Blessing, Stay Positive
John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Complete 101 Collection: What Every Leader Needs to Know”, p.20, Thomas Nelson

Problems are not my problem. It's not what happens to me but what happens in me that matters.

John C. Maxwell
Stay Positive, Matter, Problem

When you nurture people and add value to them without expecting anything in return, they feel significant.

John C. Maxwell
People, Add, Return
John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan (2013). “How to Influence People: Make a Difference in Your World”, p.32, Thomas Nelson Inc

Leaders provide for their people what the people cannot provide for themselves.

John C. Maxwell
People, Leader
John C. Maxwell (2010). “The Right to Lead: Learning Leadership Through Character and Courage”, p.101, Thomas Nelson Inc

The real test of leadership isn't where you start out. It's where you end up.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Real, Tests

When a leader reaches out in passion, he is usually met with an answering passion.

John C. Maxwell
Passion, Leader, Mets
John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”, p.53, Thomas Nelson Inc

Adversity is an opportunity for self-discovery.

John C. Maxwell
Adversity, Opportunity, Discovery
John C. Maxwell (2015). “How Successful People Win: Turn Every Setback into a Step Forward”, p.52, Hachette UK

The more intentional you are about your leadership growth, the greater your potential for becoming the leader you're capable of being. Never stop learning.

John C. Maxwell
Motivational, Leader, Growth
John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.253, Thomas Nelson Inc

Your teammates will stretch your vision or choke your dream.

John C. Maxwell
Dream, Vision, Teammate
John C. Maxwell (2002). “Teamwork Makes the Dream Work”, p.46, Thomas Nelson

Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking.

John C. Maxwell
Thinking, Expectations, Negative
John C. Maxwell (2003). “Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work”, p.22, Hachette UK

The unexamined leader is not worth following.

John C. Maxwell
Leader, Following

If I expect great things from my people, they'll go to great lengths to keep from disappointing me.

John C. Maxwell
People, Disappointing, Length
John C. Maxwell (2014). “Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership”, p.148, Hachette UK

Many times when people leave churches we think it's a doctrinal issue, but most of the time it's a leadership issue.

John C. Maxwell
Thinking, Issues, People
Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

There is a world of difference between a person who has a big problem and a person who makes a problem big.

John C. Maxwell
Attitude, Differences, World
John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.60, Thomas Nelson Inc

Integrity is the factor that determines which one will prevail. We struggle daily with situations that demand decisions between what we want to do and what we ought to do. Integrity establishes the ground rules for resolving these tensions. it determines who we are and how we will respond before the conflict even appears. Integrity welds what we say, think, and do, into a whole person so that permission is never granted for one of these to be out of sync.

John C. Maxwell
Integrity, Struggle, Thinking
John C. Maxwell (2010). “Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)”, p.36, Thomas Nelson

Others are Ahead of me. I am continually Challenged. My focus is Forward. The atmosphere is Affirming. I am often out of my Comfort Zone. I wake up Excited. Failure is not my Enemy. Others are Growing. People desire Change. Growth is Modeled and Expected.

John C. Maxwell
People, Focus, Atmosphere
"The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth". Book by John C. Maxwell, October 2, 2012.

Great visions are cast one on one.

John C. Maxwell
Vision, Casts, Great Vision
Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

Your core values are the deeply held beliefs that authentically describe your soul.

John C. Maxwell
Soul, Belief, Core Values

The church that will not give up will be outdated and passed by, quicker than they realize.

John C. Maxwell
Giving Up, Church, Realizing
"Turning Vision Into Reality". Enrichment Interview, enrichmentjournal.ag.org. January 2000.

The purpose of leadership is to take others to the top. And when you take others who might not make it to the top otherwise, there's no other feeling like it in the world. To those who have never had the experience, you can't explain it. To those who have, you don't need to.

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Motivational, Feelings, Needs
John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.5, Thomas Nelson

Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team's performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded people.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Teamwork, Growing Up

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