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Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Exercise, Long

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Holiday, Journey

We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Littles, Picks

42% of college graduates never read a book after college.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Book, College

Thinking is hard; that's why so few do it.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Thinking, Hard

The bottomline in leadership isn't how far we advance ourselves but how far we advance others.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership
John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.51, Thomas Nelson Inc

People are training for success when they should be training for failure.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, People, Training
John C. Maxwell (2007). “Failing Forward”, p.13, Harper Collins

To do something really big, let go of your ego, and get ready to be part of a team.

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Leadership, Letting Go, Team
John C. Maxwell (2008). “Team Maxwell 2in1 (Winning With People/17 Indisputable Laws)”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc

While everyone exercises influence, the size and strength of our influence depends upon our effort. No one leads well without paying the price of discipline. As we push ourselves to grow and to learn, we enlarge our sphere of influence.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Exercise, Discipline

Leadership development is a lifetime journey, not a quick trip.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Journey, Development

Leadership is influence. It is the ability to obtain followers. When the leader lacks confidence, the followers have no commitment. A leader is great not because of his power, but because of his ability to empower others.

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Leadership, Commitment, Empowering

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it's as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Dream, Eye

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

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Leadership, Years, Trying
John C. Maxwell (2009). “How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life”, p.9, Hachette UK

Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you'll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Thinking, Decision

Achievement comes to someone when he is able to do great things for himself. Success comes when he empowers followers to do great things with him. Significance comes when he develops leaders to do great things for him. But a legacy is created only when a person puts his organization into the position to do great things without him.

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Leadership, Organization, Empowering
John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Complete 101 Collection”, p.222, Harper Collins

Leaders who practice the Law of Victory believe that anything less than success is unacceptable. And they have no Plan B.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Believe, Law
John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Law of Victory: Lesson 15 from The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership”, p.15, Thomas Nelson Inc

The leader finds the dream and then the people. The people find the leader and then the dream.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Dream, People
John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.170, Thomas Nelson Inc

When people respect someone as a person, they admire her. When they respect her as a friend, they love her. When they respect her as a leader, they follow her.

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Leadership, People, Respect Someone
John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Workbook: Revised and Updated”, p.65, Thomas Nelson Inc

The real leader holds the power, not just the position.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Real, Leader
John C. Maxwell (2001). “The Law of E. F. Hutton”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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

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

John C. Maxwell
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.

John C. Maxwell
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.

John C. Maxwell
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.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Passion, Responsibility

Leadership is the willingness to put oneself at risk.

John C. Maxwell
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

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