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If you are too attached to your own thinking and how everything is done now, then nothing will change for the better.

If you are too attached to your own thinking and how everything is done now, then nothing will change for the better.

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Thinking, Done, Change For The Better

Become a coach, not a king. A coach brings out the best in others, helping them to reach deep down inside and discover their potential. A king only gives commands.

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Kings, Giving, Helping
John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.72, Thomas Nelson Inc

Always turn to God in the midst of your struggle and view people who offended you as an instruments of divine sovereignty.

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Struggle, Offended You, Views

A leader's attitude is caught by his or her followers more quickly than his or her actions.

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Positive, Leadership, Attitude
John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.76, Thomas Nelson Inc

Dreams don't work unless you do

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Motivational, Dream, Encouragement
FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Jun 01, 2016

Rotten Attitudes ruin a team.

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Teamwork, Attitude, Rotten

The truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement.

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

Every change in human attitude must come through internal understanding and acceptance. Man is the only known creature who can reshape and remould himself by altering his attitude.

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Attitude, Acceptance, Men

The size of a person is more important than the size of the problem.

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Attitude, Important, Size
John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.62, Thomas Nelson

When your great players are team players, everybody else follows their lead. The best team doesn't always win - it's usually the team that gets along best.

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Team, Winning, Player

Team leaders have to connect with their team and themselves. If they don't know their team's strengths and weaknesses, they cannot hand off responsibilities to the team. And if they don't know their own strengths and weaknesses, they will not hand off responsibilities to the team.

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Team, Responsibility, Hands

Making matters worse is people's natural inclination to be easy on themselves, judging themselves according to their good intentions-while holding others to a higher standard and judging them by their worst actions.

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Judging, People, Matter

The key choices you make-apart from the natural talent you already have-will set you apart from others who have talent alone.

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Keys, Natural Talent, Choices
John C. Maxwell (2011). “Beyond Talent: Become Someone Who Gets Extraordinary Results”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

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Inspirational, Leadership, Growth

Over time, is it easier or harder to sustain your influence within your organization? With charisma alone, influence becomes increasingly more difficult to sustain. With character, as time passes, influence builds and requires less work to sustain.

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Leadership, Character, Organization

Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent inside of them.

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Leadership, Teamwork, People

Transmit your vision emotionally by gaining credibility, demonstrating passion, establishing relationships and communicating a felt need. Transmit it logically by confronting reality, formulating strategy, accepting responsibility, celebrating victory and learning from defeat.

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Leadership, Passion, Responsibility

The law of the [Cub Scout] pack guides the boys to move in the direction of being helpful, friendly, courteous, trustworthy and promote qualities which parents and the community are looking for. The whole purpose of scouting is to help the children grow up making good decisions in life.

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Children, Growing Up, Moving

If you're going to play together as a team, you've got to care for one another. you've got to love each other.

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Team, Play, Together
John C. Maxwell (2002). “Your Road Map For Success Workbook: You Can Get There From Here”, p.224, Thomas Nelson Inc

If you want to become a better listener, however you need to learn to direct that energy and attention positively by concentrating on the person you're with.

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Energy, Needs, Attention
John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan (1997). “Becoming a Person of Influence: How to Positively Impact the Lives of Others”, p.86, Thomas Nelson Inc

Changing your attitude from self-centerdness to understanding requires desire and commitment to always try to see things from the other persons point of view.

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Attitude, Commitment, Self

Working on a weakness within a strength zone will always produce positive results. Working on a weakness outside of the strength zone will not.

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Motivational, Weakness, Results

The more that people know how they fit on a team, the more they will desire to properly make the most of their fit and maximize their contribution.

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Motivational, Team, People
John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.62, Thomas Nelson Inc

In my organizations I don't have employees; I have teammates. Yes, I do pay people and offer them benefits. But people don't work for me. They work with me. We are working together to fulfill the vision. Without them, I cannot succeed. Without me, they cannot succeed. We're a team. We reach our goals together. We need each other. If we didn't, then one of us is in the wrong place.

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Motivational, Team, Organization
John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success

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Pay, Achieve
John C. Maxwell (2007). “Failing Forward”, p.24, Harper Collins

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