John C. Maxwell Quotes About Choices
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There are two paths people can take. They can either play now and pay later, or pay now and play later. Regardless of the choice, one thing is certain. Life will demand a payment.
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Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life.
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Now more than ever I am aware that a person's significant birthdays can either mark the passage of time, or they can mark changes they've made in their lives to reach their potential and become the person they were created to be. With each passing year, I want to make good choices that make me a better person, help me become a better leader, and make a positive impact on others.
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Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.
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Perhaps our greatest power in life is the power to choose. Without question, choices are the most determining factor in how our lives turn out.
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When you face discouragement, you can do one of two things, and the one you choose will color your perspective. You can look at others to place the blame, or you can look at yourself to discover your opportunities. The choice is yours.
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Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.
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COMMITMENT is the first step to every good thing I know, and the only step that matters when it comes to achievement. It inspires and attracts people, shows them you have conviction and goals, that you are focused and determined. And the commitment that is based on values will endure. Any time you make choices based on solid life values, you are in a better position to sustain your level of commitment, because you don't have to continually re-evaluate its importance.
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When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.
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Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized that they couldn't determine every circumstance in life but they could determine their choice of attitude towards every circumstance.
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Your attitude is a choice.
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It's one thing to make a choice. It's another to put that choice into practice.
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We are either the masters or victims of our attitudes. It is a matter of personal choice. Who we are today is the result of choices we made yesterday. Tomorrow, we will become what we choose today. To change means to choose change.
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Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.
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Talent is a gift, but our character is a choice. Talent is natural ability, our gift from God, but we have the power to determine our character. That power rests on a foundation consisting of the choices we make in life. And those choices almost always dictate the amount of trust others have in us, and to what level of leadership we rise.
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You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.
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The ability to understand people is a choice.
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We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.
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The key choices you make-apart from the natural talent you already have-will set you apart from others who have talent alone.
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The law of the [Cub Scout] pack guides the boys to move in the direction of being helpful, friendly, courteous, trustworthy and promote qualities which parents and the community are looking for. The whole purpose of scouting is to help the children grow up making good decisions in life.
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If you don't change the direction you are going, then you're likely to end up where you're heading.
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Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.
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Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.
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People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances. If they make enough good choices, they begin to create better conditions for themselves.
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Talent allows people to stand out, but their wrong choices make them sit down.
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Everyone gets discourages...The question is: Are you going to give up or get up? It's a choice.
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Talk to people, not above them.
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Commitment comes as a result of choice, not conditions.
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I define self-control, in the beginning of life, as the choice of achieving what I really want by doing things I really don't want to do. Once this becomes a habit, discipline becomes the choice of achieving what I really want by doing the very things I now want to do! I really believe that a disciplined life becomes a joy--but only after we have worked hard to practice it.
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