Top 31 Growth John Maxwell Quotes
#1. To add growth, lead followers - to multiply, lead leaders.
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#2. Most people's natural inclination is to judge themselves according to their best qualities while they measure others by their worst. As a result, they point to areas where their teammates need to grow. But the truth is that every person is responsible for his own growth first.
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#3. People who make growth their goal - instead of a title, position, salary, or other external target - always have a future.
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#4. 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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#7. 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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#8. The Law of Reflection Learning to Pause Allows Growth to Catch Up with You "Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action." - PETER F. DRUCKER
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#10. 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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#12. Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.
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#14. 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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#16. Success is a continuing thing. It is growth and development. It is achieving one thing and using that as a stepping stone to achieve something else.
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#18. Growth compounds and accelerates if you remain intentional about it.
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#19. 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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#20. If you are not moving forward, the world is passing you by.
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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others.
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#26. If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.
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#27. 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.
John C. Maxwell
#28. Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it's almost always due to personal growth.
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#29. I state in my book Put Your Dream to the Test that the more valid reasons a person has to achieve their dream, the higher the odds are that they will. Valid reasons also increase the odds that a person will follow through with personal growth.
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#30. The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.
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#31. 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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