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Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.

Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.

John C. Maxwell
Book, People, Mentor

The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying

John C. Maxwell
Inspirational, Life, Motivational
John C. Maxwell (2011). “Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions that Will Help You See It and Seize It”, p.169, Thomas Nelson Inc

You have to know who you are to grow to your potential. But you have to grow in order to know who you are.

John C. Maxwell
Order, Growth, Grows
FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Mar 10, 2016

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Pride, Advice
"The Top 3 Reasons Why Being Alone (Single) Is So Scary" by Barrett Pall, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2016.

If you want to be positive, upbeat, and passionate, you need to take responsibility for being that way.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Responsibility, Being Positive
John C. Maxwell (2006). “The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants”, p.75, Thomas Nelson Inc

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.

John C. Maxwell
Inspirational, Motivational, Success

God has put a dream inside you. It's yours, and no one else's. It declares your uniqueness. It holds your potential. Only you can birth it. Only you can live it. Not to discover it, take responsibility for it, and act upon it is to negatively affect yourself as well as all those who would benefit from your dream.

John C. Maxwell
Dream, Responsibility, Benefits
John C. Maxwell (2011). “Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions that Will Help You See It and Seize It”, p.20, Thomas Nelson Inc

The trials and pressures of life--and how we face them--often define us. Confronted by adversity, many people give up while others rise up. How do those who succeed do it? They persevere. They find the benefit to them personally that comes from any trial. And they recognize that the best thing about adversity is coming out on the other side of it. There is a sweetness to overcoming your troubles and finding something good in the process, however small it may be. Giving up when adversity threatens can make a person bitter. Persevering through adversity makes one better.

John C. Maxwell
Giving Up, Adversity, People

What most people really want is to be listened to, respected, and understood.

John C. Maxwell
People, Want, Understood
John C. Maxwell, Leslie Parrott (2005). “25 Ways to Win with People: How to Make Others Feel Like a Million Bucks”, p.104, Thomas Nelson Inc

The key to your success, to my success, to everyone's success is determined by our daily agenda. What you and I do every day is either making us or breaking us, we're either preparing or repairing. So when somebody says, 'John, I want to be a success. Where do I start?' I say, It's very simple. Start with today.

John C. Maxwell
Simple, Keys, Agendas

People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances. If they make enough good choices, they begin to create better conditions for themselves.

John C. Maxwell
Character, People, Choices

Your life begins to change when you change something you do every day.

John C. Maxwell

Have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must start with sowing excellent thoughts.

John C. Maxwell
Success, Sowing, Excellent

You must do right before you feel good.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Feel Good, Growth

You cannot enjoy others until you enjoy yourself because you cannot give to others what you do not have.

John C. Maxwell
Giving, Enjoy, Enjoy Yourself

It is hard to feel bad about yourself when you are doing something good for someone else. There are a lot of ways to lift your self-esteem, but making a positive difference in another's life has got to be my best leadership guidance. Serving others and working to add value to them will lift your spirits in a way that nothing else will. Trust me on this one.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Self Esteem, Differences

As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.

John C. Maxwell
Inspirational, Learning, Thinking
John C. Maxwell (2001). “Developing the Leader Within You Workbook”, p.138, Thomas Nelson Inc

Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.

John C. Maxwell
Hard Work, Should Have, Easy

When a person feels encouraged, he can face the impossible and overcome incredible adversity.

John C. Maxwell
Adversity, Overcoming, Faces
John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan (1997). “Becoming a Person of Influence: How to Positively Impact the Lives of Others”, p.47, Thomas Nelson Inc

The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.

John C. Maxwell
Struggle, Achievement, Levels
John C. Maxwell (2011). “Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You”, p.264, Thomas Nelson Inc

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.

John C. Maxwell
Single, Hurt, Moving
John C. Maxwell (2007). “Failing Forward”, p.78, Harper Collins

What you are going to be tomorrow, you are becoming today.

John C. Maxwell
Today, Becoming, Tomorrow
John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.114, Thomas Nelson Inc

There is definitely a connection between finding your passion and reaching your potential. People ask me all the time, 'John, how do I know what I am meant to do in life?' The answer is really simple: Energy and Excellence. When you experience unbounded energy in what you are doing, when you are driven to excellence in your work and love what you do - then you can rest assured that you have found your passion and are definitely in pursuit of your full potential.

John C. Maxwell
Passion, Simple, People

To reach your potential you must grow. And to grow, you must be highly intentional about it.

John C. Maxwell
Grows

We don't grow on accident, we grow on purpose.

John C. Maxwell
Purpose, Grows, Accidents

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