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“Napoleon Hill said, “It’s not what you are going to do, but it’s what you are doing right now that counts.”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for someone else. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
“The first law of holes says, “When you are in one, stop digging.”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
“None of us is flawless. Good people do bad things. Smart people do dumb things. We all find ourselves in moments where we feel tempted to do something we know in our hearts isn’t the right thing, and we’ve all veered off course. It’s humbling. Sharing that with others is authentic.”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
“I realized everything rises and falls on leadership.”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
“Successful people do daily what unsuccessful people do only occasionally. The bookends of success are beginning well and ending well. What is between those bookends? Consistency. If you want to become the leader you have the potential to be, you need to pay the price of self-discipline.”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
“If you’ve been given a leadership position, then you’ve been given your boss’s permission to lead. If you’ve earned influence on Level 2, then you have acquired your people’s permission to lead. That’s powerful.”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
“Success without a successor is ultimately failure.”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
“It’s been said that when one of Wooden’s players asked, “Coach, what happens if I point to the player who gave me the assist and he isn’t watching?” Coach Wooden replied, “He will always be watching.” People desire validation and encouragement. It’s human nature.”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
“A servant leader’s value rests in why he does what he does and how well he does it, not in what he does or how often he does it. This allows him to find value in who he is.”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
“Most people are more comfortable with old problems than new solutions, because the new represents the unknown.”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
“It will add to your effectiveness, subtract from your weaknesses, divide your workload, and multiply your impact.”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
“There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being, to help someone else succeed. —ALAN LOY MCGINNIS”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
“Servant leaders should listen without judgment, be authentic, build community, share power, and develop people.6”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
“Winston Churchill quipped, “To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
“My friend Rick Warren, the founder of Saddleback Church, said, “The greatest enemy of tomorrow’s success is yesterday’s success.”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
“Success leads to the greatest failure, which is pride. Failure leads to the greatest success, which is humility and learning.”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
“Sowing seeds of trust with people creates the fields of collaboration necessary to get extraordinary things done in organizations.6”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
“A mistake is only a failure if you don’t learn from it. —ROLAND NIEDNAGEL”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
“The Law of Diminishing Intent says that the longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never do it.”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
“Average” is what failures claim to be when their friends ask them why they are not more successful. “Average” is the top of the bottom, the best of the worst, the bottom of the top, the worst of the top. Which of these are you? “Average” means being run-of-the-mill, mediocre, insignificant, an also-ran, a non-entity. Being “average” is the lazy person’s cop-out; it’s lacking guts to take a stand in life; it’s living by default.”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
“The short-term easy leads to the long-term difficult, while the short-term difficult leads to the long-term easy. —RORY VADEN”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
“Do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not. —THOMAS HUXLEY”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
“Do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. —CARL JUNG”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
“Author Napoleon Hill said, “Cherish your visions and dreams as they are the children of your soul: the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
“We all live under the same sky but we don’t all have the same horizon. —KONRAD ADENAUER”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. —ALBERT EINSTEIN”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
“How do the people around you react to the sparks of life? Are they fire lighters who blow things up, or firefighters who calm things down?”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0
“The problem promise: when you handle them well, problems promise to make you better.”
John C. Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You 2.0

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