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You are where you are and what you are because of the dominating thoughts that occupy your mind. John Maxwell	Leading others takes courage. Knowing the right decision is usually easy. Making the right decision is hard. John Maxwell
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. Theodore Roosevelt	It’s lonely at the top… so you’d better know why you’re there. John Maxwell
Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures disliked doing and will not do. John Maxwell	Leadership functions on the basis of trust. When trust is gone, the leader soon will be. John Maxwell
Your attitude is either your best friend or your worst enemy, your greatest asset or your greatest liability. John Maxwell	We should seize every opportunity to give encouragement. Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. George M. Adams
When you’re through changing, you’re through. Bruce Barton	Winners concentrate on winning; losers concentrate on getting by. John Maxwell
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example. John Maxwell	Are you gonna get any better, or is this it? Earl Weaver (manager, Baltimore Orioles) to an umpire
Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them, day after day. What you promise today must be renewed and redecided tomorrow and each day that stretches out before you. Arthur Gordon	Leadership is servanthood. Observation of this truth keeps your motives pure and protects you from ambition. It also makes you like Jesus. John Maxwell
We first form habits. Then habits form us. John Maxwell	Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa
People stop growing when the price gets too high. John Maxwell	My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failures. Abraham Lincoln
If your vision doesn’t cost you something, it’s a daydream. John Maxwell	Don’t ever be afraid to admit you were wrong. It’s like saying you’re wiser today than you were yesterday.
When you don’t want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.	Time is neutral; but it can be made the ally of those who will seize it and use it to the full. Winston Churchill
Our attitude at the beginning of a task will affect its outcome more than anything else. John Maxwell	Essentially there are two actions in life. Performance and excuses. Make a decision as to which you will accept for yourself. Stephen Brown
If people respect you but don’t like you, they won’t stay with you. If they like you but don’t respect you, they’ll stay with you, but they won’t follow you. To be an effective leader, you must earn both from your people. John Maxwell	Perhaps once in a hunderd years a person may be ruined by excellive praise, but surely once every minute someone dies inside for lack of it. Cecil G. Osborne
One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. Robert Kennedy	The leader’s growth determines the people’s growth. John Maxwell
People do what people see. They forget your words but follow your footsteps. John Maxwell	Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Ninety percent of the work done in this country is done by people who don’t feel well. Theodore Roosevelt	If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves. Thomas Edison
People buy into the leader before they buy into the leader’s vision. If you want to lead, you must sell yourself. John Maxwell	Love and respect do not automatically accompany a position of leadership. They must be earned.
Anyone who has made a mistake and doesn’t correct it is making another one.	Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldn’t do. William Knudson
Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present. John Maxwell	Leading people is a responsibility, not a perk. To whomever much is given, much is required. John Maxwell
You teach what you know, but you reporduce what you are. John Maxwell	People are your only appreciable asset. John Maxwell
Most people are educated way beyond their level of obedience. John Maxwell	The attitude of your people is a reflection of your attitude. John Maxwell
To be wronged is nothings unless you continue to remember it. Confucious	See people as they could be, not as they are. John Maxwell
We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.	Circumstances do not make you what you are… they reveal what you are! John Maxwell
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.	People are like rubber bands. They must be stretched to be effective. John Maxwel
Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. Lord Chesterfield	Clear your mind of can’t. Samuel Johnson
Many people go far in life because someone else thought they could. John Maxwell	People can live for a long time on a good compliment. John Maxwell
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. John Maxwell	Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t. Margaret Thatcher
If your absence doesn’t make any difference, your presence won’t either.	Leadership is influence. John Maxwell
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Bill Cosby	The moment you stop learning, you stop leading. Rick Warren
One of the greatest gifts leaders can give others is hope.	Don't make stupid mistakes.
You are the same today that you are going to be in five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read. Charles “Tremendous” Jones	A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be. Rosalynn Carter