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The best gift you can ever give your mentor is to grow. They feed off your growth. I believe that everyone has the seed of success inside, but too many people can't find it in themselves and as a result do not reach

The best gift you can ever give your mentor is to grow. They feed off your growth. I believe that everyone has the seed of success inside, but too many people can't find it in themselves and as a result do not reach their potential. But there are those whose purpose in life is to fertilize the seed of potential in another, who are rewarded by seeing that person grow and blossom before their eyes. Raising up others to a higher level is a mentor's joy and sustenance.

John C. Maxwell
Believe, Eye, Giving

Give God the first part of every day. Give God the first day of every week. Give God the first portion of your income. Give God the first consideration in every decision. Give God the first place in your life.

John C. Maxwell
Giving, Decision, Income
John C. Maxwell (2007). “Leadership Principles for Graduates: Create Success in Life One Day at a Time”, p.114, Thomas Nelson Inc

If you're not doing something with your life, then it doesn’t matter how long you live. If you're doing something with your life, then it doesn't matter how short your life may be. A life is not measured by years lived, but by its usefulness. If you are giving, loving, serving, helping, encouraging, and adding value to others, then you're living a life that counts!

John C. Maxwell
Years, Long, Giving

Giving is the highest level of living.

John C. Maxwell
Giving, Levels, Highest
John C. Maxwell (1997). “Your Roadmap for Success”

All visions begin with relationships. My relationship with God is where I receive the vision; my relationship with my people is where I give the vision. If those relationships aren't what they could be or should be, on either side, the receiving or the giving out, the vision is going to be aborted.

John C. Maxwell
People, Giving, Vision
Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

When you find your spiritual gift, God will give you an opportunity to use it.

John C. Maxwell
Spiritual, Opportunity, Giving

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

God gives us resources according to our dreams and according to our obedience. And God doesn't give those resources until we've started walking in obedience.

John C. Maxwell
Dream, Giving, Obedience
"Turning Vision Into Reality". Enrichment Interview, enrichmentjournal.ag.org. January 2000.

Delegate - work smarter not harder; do what you do best and drop the rest; get control of your calendar; do what you love because it will give you energy; work with people you like so your energy isn't depleted.

John C. Maxwell
Love Is, People, Giving

Out of what I had received in my development, I was also able to give. The confidence I gained from personal growth gave me credibility and made me believe I could start developing others. And in that, I found life's greatest joy and reward.

John C. Maxwell
Believe, Giving, Joy
John C. Maxwell (2012). “The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential”, p.224, Hachette UK

Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.

John C. Maxwell
Dream, Giving, Goal
John C. Maxwell (2003). “Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work”, p.67, Hachette UK

If you want to keep giving you have to keep growing.

John C. Maxwell
Giving, Growing, Want

Effective leaders don't gather things just for themselves; they do it in order to give to others.

John C. Maxwell
Order, Giving, Leader
John C. Maxwell (2007). “Leadership Promises for Your Week”, p.33, Thomas Nelson Inc

My potential is what God gives me - that's His gift to me - what I give back to Him is what I do with that potential.

John C. Maxwell
Giving, Giving Back, Give Me
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If you want to help others and become a person of influence, keep smiling, sharing, giving, and turning the other cheek.

John C. Maxwell
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

Passion gives you an advantage over others, because one person with passion is greater than ninety-nine who have only an interest!

John C. Maxwell
Passion, Ninety Nine, Giving

What you give to help others, builds them up enough that they are able to give to others. It's a cycle that can continue on long after you're dead and gone.

John C. Maxwell
Helping Others, Long, Giving

..Give them your faith, and they become confident, energized, and self-reliant.

John C. Maxwell
Self, Giving, Influence
John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan (1997). “Becoming a Person of Influence: How to Positively Impact the Lives of Others”, p.64, Thomas Nelson Inc

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, People, Giving

Success is choosing to enter the arena of action, determined to give yourself to the cause that will better humanity and last for eternity.

John C. Maxwell
Giving, Humanity, Causes

Remember, at the time God gives us a vision, we never have the resources available to accomplish it. We don't have the people, the money, the knowledge, or the opportunity.

John C. Maxwell
Opportunity, People, Giving
"Turning Vision Into Reality". Enrichment Interview, enrichmentjournal.ag.org. January 2000.

If a leader cannot give you a clear picture of what he or she sees in the future, that person is not the leader of that organization.

John C. Maxwell
Organization, Giving, Leader
Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

Usually the person who rises within an organization has a good attitude. The promotions did not give that individual an outstanding attitude, but an outstanding attitude resulted in promotions.

John C. Maxwell
Attitude, Organization, Giving
John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Complete 101 Collection”, p.18, Harper Collins

It's better to give ideas away and contribute to another person's success than to have them lying dormant.

John C. Maxwell
Lying, Ideas, Giving
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

Our attitude can give us an uncommonly positive perspective.

John C. Maxwell
Attitude, Giving, Perspective
John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Complete 101 Collection”, p.21, Harper Collins

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