“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an invasion of ideas.”
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John C. Maxwell
“If you pair excellence with humility, people not only won’t run over you, they will respect you.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Thomas Jefferson said, “It’s wonderful how much can be done if we are always working.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.”
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John C. Maxwell
“You cannot separate your identity from your perspective. All that you are and every experience you’ve had color how you see things. It is your lens.”
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John C. Maxwell
“A great dream with a bad team is nothing more than a nightmare.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
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John C. Maxwell
“When you are able to create a lonely place in the middle of your actions and concerns, your successes and failures slowly can lose some of their power over you.”
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John C. Maxwell
“The happiest people are those who have invested their time in others. The unhappiest people are those who wonder how the world is going to make them happy.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Four Unpardonable Sins of a Communicator”: being unprepared, uncommitted, uninteresting, or uncomfortable.”
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John C. Maxwell
“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.”
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John C. Maxwell
“The bottom line is that indifference is really a form of selfishness.”
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John C. Maxwell
“The main point is that it’s the speaker’s responsibility to bring energy to the audience and to work to activate them.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Marriage, like any long-term relationship, requires us to . . . wade through a few things that are difficult. work for many things that are needed. wait on some things that take time. watch out for those things that can be harmful. wave good-bye to personal things that are selfish.”
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John C. Maxwell
“To lead any way other than by example, we send a fuzzy picture of leadership to others. If we work on improving ourselves first and make that our primary mission, then others are more likely to follow.”
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John C. Maxwell
