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“The greatest of all miracles is that we need not be tomorrow what we are today. The greatest of all insights is that we cannot be tomorrow what we do not do today. That is why today matters.”

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Author:John C. Maxwell

“For years I kept a sign on my desk that helped me maintain the right perspective concerning yesterday. It simply said, 'yesterday ended last night.' It reminded me that no matter how badly I might have failed in the past, it's done, and today is a new day.”

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“People create success in their lives by focusing on today. It may sound trite, but today is the only time you have. It's too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow. That's why today matters. Most of the time we miss that.”

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“The best way to ensure success is to start growing today. No matter where you may be starting from, don't be discouraged; everyone who got where he is started where he was.”

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Book:Your Road Map For Success: You Can Get There from Here

Source: Your Road Map For Success: You Can Get There from Here

“The only adequate preparation for tomorrow is the right use of today.”

Use Today Tomorrow Preparation Adequate

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Knowing the future is difficult, controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.”

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“The greatest detriment to many people's success tomorrow is their thinking today.”

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“There is a real hunger for spiritual things in today's culture; people are seeking something spiritual, something beyond themselves. That's the good news. The bad news is people are not getting it at church because the church is singing songs, preaching messages, doing programs, and taking offerings for itself.”

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“When I made that statement that the person discovers the secret of their success by their daily agenda, all of a sudden it hit me that if I could teach people to make today count; if I could really teach them what they need to do today to have a good day, that tomorrow would really take care of itself.”

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Author:John C. Maxwell

“You realize that we over-exaggerate yesterday, we over-estimate tomorrow and we underestimate today. We think, "Well, I'm going to kill time," "I'll get back to this tomorrow."”

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Author:John C. Maxwell

“What I did in the book [Today Matters] is I tried to help a person make their day - every day - their masterpiece.”

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“To help [people] understand that what you shortcut today, cannot be made up tomorrow. So it's like, I'm not going to do anything today, and I'm going to do the wrong thing today and somehow tomorrow it will get a lot better."”

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Author:John C. Maxwell

“I say this in the book [Today Matters], we either spend our day repairing or preparing, and if I haven't taken good care of my today's, they accumulate. So all of a sudden today what I'm doing is I'm going back, I'm repairing bad relationships and wrong decisions, and I'm digging a hole. I'm not making any progress because I'm in a repairing mode, versus if I really make today count that prepares me for tomorrow. Tomorrow really will take care of itself if I do the right thing today.”

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Author:John C. Maxwell

“Tomorrow really will take care of itself if I do the right thing today.”

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Author:John C. Maxwell

“In the book [Today Matters] I talk about successful people make important decisions early in their life, and then they manage those decisions the rest of their life.”

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“I talk about my daily dozen in the book [ Today Matters]. Twelve things that are certainly attainable by any of us that we need to manage every day.”

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Author:John C. Maxwell

“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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“I tried to write the book [Today Matters] with integrity and say, health is one of my daily dozen, and I work on it, but I don't have this right.”

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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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Author:John C. Maxwell

“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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Author:John C. Maxwell

“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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Author:John C. Maxwell

“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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“Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.”

Today Tomorrow Clever Executives Classroom

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Question for God every morning: What is the main event today? What do you want me to focus on today?”

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“If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.”

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“Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.”

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Author:John C. Maxwell

“To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward.”

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Book:Failing Forward

Source: Failing Forward

“A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.”

Today Leadership Vision Tomorrow Cost Realism Credibility

Author:John C. Maxwell

“The only thing we can control is what we do in the present. The more we replay yesterday, the further we get from today's opportunities. And the further away we move from opportunities, the tougher the road is to get back. Opportunities never look as good coming as they do going, and they wait for no one. We need to be highly attentive to spot them. And we must be focused on our present capabilities, not past regrets.”

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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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Book:Motivated to Succeed: Inspirational Selections from John C. Maxwell

Source: Motivated to Succeed: Inspirational Selections from John C. Maxwell

“People today are desperate for leaders, but they want to be influenced only by individuals they can trust, persons of good character.”

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Book:How to Influence People: Make a Difference in Your World

Source: How to Influence People: Make a Difference in Your World

“Faith in people is an essential quality of an influencer when working with others, yet it is a scarce commodity today.”

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Book:How to Influence People: Make a Difference in Your World

Source: How to Influence People: Make a Difference in Your World

“What you are going to be tomorrow, you are becoming today.”

Today Becoming Tomorrow

Book:Developing the Leader Within You

Source: Developing the Leader Within You

“Point out a great strength of someone in your life today!”

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Book:The Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You

Source: The Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You

“You can change your tomorrow if you do something today. Few people understand how the way you live today impacts your tomorrow. Today is the only time we have within our grasp, yet many people let it slip through their fingers, recognizing neither its value nor potential. If we want to do something with our lives, then we must make today matter, because that's where tomorrow's success lies.”

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Author:John C. Maxwell

“Tomorrow's destiny becomes today's direction.”

Today Destiny Tomorrow

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Growth today is an investment for tomorrow.”

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Book:Your Road Map For Success: You Can Get There from Here

Source: Your Road Map For Success: You Can Get There from Here

“Everyone has the power to impact the outcome of his life. The way to do it is to focus on today. . . It is too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow.”

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Author:John C. Maxwell

“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. Success doesn't just suddenly occur one day in someone's life. Neither does failure. Each is a process. Every day of your life is merely preparation for the next. What you become is the result of what you do today.”

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Book:Make Today Count: The Secret of Your Success Is Determined by Your Daily Agenda

Source: Make Today Count: The Secret of Your Success Is Determined by Your Daily Agenda

“The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.”

Should Today Missions Yesterday Compare

Author:John C. Maxwell

“The key to your success, to my success, to everyone's success is determined by our daily agenda. What you and I do every day is either making us or breaking us, we're either preparing or repairing. So when somebody says, 'John, I want to be a success. Where do I start?' I say, It's very simple. Start with today.”

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“The greatest of all insights is that we cannot be tomorrow what we do not do today.”

Today Tomorrow Insight

Author:John C. Maxwell

“The person who insists on using yesterday's methods in today's world won't be in business tomorrow”

World Persons Today Tomorrow Method Yesterday Today's World

Book:How Successful People Win: Turn Every Setback into a Step Forward

Source: How Successful People Win: Turn Every Setback into a Step Forward

“Be better tomorrow than you are today.”

Today Tomorrow Better Tomorrow

Book:The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization

Source: The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization

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