Quotes from John C. Maxwell

Algunas veces, hasta el mejor administrador se asemeja al muchacho que pasea un perro grande y espera a ver dónde quiere ir para llevarlo allá».

Affirmation from others is fickle and fleeting. If you want to make an impact during your lifetime, you have to trade the praise you could receive from others for the things of value that you can accomplish. You can't be "one of the boys" and follow your destiny at the same time.

En palabras de Steve Jobs: "Recordar que te vas a morir es la mejor manera de evitar la trampa de pensar que tienes algo que perder. Ya estás desnudo. No hay razón para no seguir tu corazón".

I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline," said Vince Lombardi. "I firmly believe that any man's finest hour—this greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear—is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle—victorious.

Every human being has value, and every player on a team adds value to the team in some way.

The happiest people in life don't necessarily have the best of everything. They just try to make the best of everything. They're like the person in a remote village going to a well every day to get water who says, "Every time I come to this well, I come away with my bucket full!" instead of, "I can't believe I have to keep coming back to this well to fill up my bucket!

La vida que usted escoge no comienza y termina con usted. Lo que usted hace influencia a los demás.

Without confidence in Christ we could be tempted to become egocentric and cocky. Without confidence in ourselves we are defeated, powerless Christians. Without confidence in others we are suspicious and untrusting.

our goal should be to treat others better than they treat us

Seguir lo que nos apasiona es la clave para descubrir nuestro potencial.

With hope, failure is a skipping stone. Without hope, failure is a tombstone.

English heart surgeon Martyn Lloyd-Jones asserted, "Most unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself rather than talking to yourself." What kind of voices do you hear? When you face new experiences, does a voice in your head say you're going to fail? If you're hearing negative messages, you need to learn to give yourself positive mental pep talks.

Sometimes the best thing we can do for someone else is to hold our tongue. When tempted to give advice that's not wanted, to show off, to say "I told you so," or to point out another's error, the best policy is to say nothing. As nineteenth-century British journalist George Sala advised, we should strive "not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

How do I identify the top 20 percent influencers/producers in my organization?" I suggest that you make a list of everyone in your company or department. Then ask yourself this question about each individual: "If this person takes a negative action against me or withdraws his or her support from me, what will the impact likely be?" If

3. Application: Applying what you've learned is sometimes difficult because it requires change. Most people change only when one of three things happens: they hurt enough that they have to, they learn enough that they want to, or they receive enough that they are able to. Your goal is to keep learning so that you want to change for the better every day.

Success leads to the greatest failure, which is pride. Failure leads to the greatest success, which is humility and learning. —DAVID BROOKS

Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's okay to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing. —H. STANLEY JUDD

Stories tell us who we are. They… Inspire us. Connect with us. Animate our reasoning process. Give us permission to act. Fire our emotions. Give us pictures of who we aspire to be. Stories are us.

Enthusiasm increases a person's accomplishments while apathy increases his alibis.

BEGIN YOUR THIRTY-DAY TRIAL OF EXPECTING THE BEST OF EVERYTHING.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality." That can happen only when the leader is willing to hear and face the truth.

As Winifred Newman said, "Vision is the world's most desperate need. There are no hopeless situations, only people who think hopelessly.

Vision is the world's most desperate need. There are no hopeless situations, only people who think hopelessly.

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