John C. Maxwell Quotes About Growth
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To add growth, lead followers - to multiply, lead leaders.
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You cannot have growth without change.
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If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.
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If you focus on goals, you may hit goals - but that doesn't guarantee growth. If you focus on growth, you will grow and always hit goals.
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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.
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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.
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Leadership deals with people and their dynamics, which are continually changing. The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth.
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Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.
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The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.
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Now what I do is I manage that decision. And I teach them in the book how - know what decision to make and then how to manage those decisions. It's a very - it's a personal growth book [Today Matters]; that's what it is.
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The more intentional you are about your leadership growth, the greater your potential for becoming the leader you're capable of being. Never stop learning.
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I think success has a lot to do with my own personal growth.
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The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
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I wrote the book [Today Matters] because I have a passion to help people personally grow. Really what it is, it's a personal growth book.
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Others are Ahead of me. I am continually Challenged. My focus is Forward. The atmosphere is Affirming. I am often out of my Comfort Zone. I wake up Excited. Failure is not my Enemy. Others are Growing. People desire Change. Growth is Modeled and Expected.
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You have to know who you are to grow to your potential. But you have to grow in order to know who you are.
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We are so blessed, we get hundreds of emails a day that say, “John, I’ve worked this plan for one year and I can really see my growth.” So what I would love is for readers to do that for a year and then email me.
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Make personal growth a daily priority.
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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 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.
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An attitude's growth never stops.
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Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.
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Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.
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Growth today is an investment for tomorrow.
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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.
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If you aren't making any mistakes, it's a sure sign you're playing it too safe.
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You must do right before you feel good.
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When you finish reading the book [Today Matters], take the daily dozen and list them in order of how well you do them. For example, the one that I would put at the highest for me is attitude or relationships because I'm really strong at both of those. At the bottom would be health. What I tell people is, "Take one month and work on one of the daily dozen for a whole year." And so it's really a one-year personal growth plan.
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Every new level of growth we hope to experience as leaders calls for a new level of change. You cannot have one without the other. If you want to be a better leader, get ready to make some trades.
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If you are not moving forward, the world is passing you by.
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People say, "John, what's your personal growth?" And ask "How do you grow?" And I tell them. I thought, "Why do I keep telling them, why don't I just write a book on what I call personal growth?" And that's what this [Today Matters] book is.
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