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“The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.”
John Calvin Maxwell
“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”
John Calvin Maxwell
“Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.”
John Calvin Maxwell
“To add value to others, one must first value others.”
John Calvin Maxwell
“The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.”
John Calvin Maxwell
“Leadership is influence.”
John Calvin Maxwell
“We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.”
John Calvin Maxwell
“Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.”
John Calvin Maxwell
“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”
John Calvin Maxwell
“Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.”
John Calvin Maxwell
“In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.”
John Calvin Maxwell
“Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.”
John Calvin Maxwell
“If you're lying, you're lying.”
John Calvin Maxwell
“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”
Mignon McLaughlin
“It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.”
Mignon McLaughlin
“A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.”
Mignon McLaughlin
“Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.”
Mignon McLaughlin
“For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.”
Mignon McLaughlin
“No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.”
Mignon McLaughlin
“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.”
Mignon McLaughlin
“A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.”
Mignon McLaughlin
“The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.”
Mignon McLaughlin
“We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.”
Mignon McLaughlin
“Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.”
Mignon McLaughlin
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
Mignon McLaughlin
“Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.”
Mignon McLaughlin
“Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.”
Mignon McLaughlin
“Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
Mignon McLaughlin
“If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.”
Mignon McLaughlin
“There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.”
Mignon McLaughlin