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Attitude ... is the prophet of your future.

Attitude ... is the prophet of your future.

John C. Maxwell
Attitude, Prophet, Your Future

The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So do optimists.

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Attitude, Lines, Helping

Leadership is the willingness to put oneself at risk.

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Leadership, Risk, Oneself
John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.297, Thomas Nelson Inc

Leadership is evoking in others the capacity to dream.

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Leadership, Dream, Capacity
John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.297, Thomas Nelson Inc

Leadership is the dream made reality.

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Leadership, Dream, Reality
John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.297, Thomas Nelson Inc

Leadership is the power of one harnessing the power of many.

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Leadership, Power Of One
John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

People who are not leaders automatically gravitate toward lines--limitations set by others. Many people are taught this in kindergarten when they are instructed to stay within the lines while coloring. But leaders are more creative than that. They look for options and opportunities. They try to take things in a new direction, or beyond the limit. Progress and innovation are made by people who think without lines.

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Leadership, Opportunity, Thinking

The leader continually passes on the vision to those who come around, knowing that dreams, if presented right, are contagious.

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Leadership, Dream, Knowing
John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.105, Thomas Nelson Inc

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

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Upset, Talent, Ends

No matter what our circumstances, our greatest limitation isn't the leader above us - it's the spirit within us.

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Leader, Matter, Spirit
John C. Maxwell (2011). “The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization”, p.37, Thomas Nelson Inc

The secret of a person's success is discovered in their daily agenda.

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Secret, Agendas, Persons

If you want to lead you must learn. If you want to continue to lead you must continue to learn.

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Want, Ifs
John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.127, Thomas Nelson Inc

If everyone doesn't pay the price to win, then everyone will pay the price of losing.

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Winning, Pay The Price, Losing
John C. Maxwell (2008). “Team Maxwell 2in1 (Winning With People/17 Indisputable Laws)”, p.141, Thomas Nelson Inc

Great communicators leave their audiences with great clarity.

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Clarity, Audience, Communicators
John C. Maxwell (2010). “Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently”, p.153, Thomas Nelson Inc

One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish much. Success is the result of people pulling together to meet common goals.

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People, Goal, Together

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

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Focus, Seems

The effectiveness of your work will never rise above your ability to lead and influence others.

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Effectiveness, Influence, Rise Above
John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc

Realizing your potential as a leader is your responsibility.

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Responsibility, Leader, Realizing
John C. Maxwell (2010). “A Leader's Heart: 365-Day Devotional Journal”, p.233, Thomas Nelson Inc

Your leadership skills determine the level of your success, and the success of those who work around you.

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Skills, Levels, Determine
John C. Maxwell (2010). “Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)”, p.8, Harper Collins

No great leader in history fought to prevent change.

John C. Maxwell
Leader, Great Leader
John C. Maxwell “Leadership 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know”, Thomas Nelson Inc

Feed your faith, starve your doubts.

John C. Maxwell
Doubt

People have a seed to success within them. Most never find it and therefore fail to reach their potential. Occasionally, a leader discovers it and helps that individual develop it. For both, they now can fulfill the purpose for which they are born.

John C. Maxwell
People, Leader, Purpose

I always find the greatest help I receive is from people who have been where I have been, but now they're no longer there.

John C. Maxwell
People, Helping, Has Beens

If you want to make your mother happy, talk to her. If you want to make your father happy, listen.

John C. Maxwell
Mother, Father, Want

Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. Leaders who are good navigators are capable of taking their people just about anywhere.

John C. Maxwell
People, Leader, Ships
John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.45, Thomas Nelson Inc

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