John C. Maxwell Quotes

“We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.”

“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”

“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.”

“Your attitude, more than your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”

“You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.”

“Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.”

“Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.”

“I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.”

“Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.”

“Success is…
knowing your purpose in life,
growing to reach your maximum potential, and
sowing seeds that benefit others.”

“Failure is far more common than success; poverty is more prevalent than wealth; and disappointment is more normal than arrival.”

“A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others.
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“Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.”

“Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.”

“If you don’t change the direction you are going, then you’re likely to end up where you’re heading…”

“The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.”

“When you aren’t willing to pay the price of learning by changing you will eventually pay the price of losing.”

“No change means no growth.”

“Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.”

“The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.”

“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”

“if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.”

“If we are growing we are always going to be outside our
comfort zone.”

“The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.”

“Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.”

“Question for God every morning:

What is the main event today? What do you want me to focus on today?”

“A leader who produces other leaders multiples their influences.”

“The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying”

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

“Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.”

“Stay focused instead of getting offended or off track by others.”

“We feel unhappy and confused with our life when we don't do the focus or calling that God has on our life.”

“Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.”

“Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life.”

“To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.”

“True success comes only when every generation continues to develop the next generation.”

“Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.”

“Image is what people think we are; integrity is whar we really are.”

“You must do right before you feel good.”

“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.”

“He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.”

“Have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must start with sowing excellent thoughts.”

“Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success.”

“Must manage your thought life daily and then you can manage your life.”

“Look behind you: What have you learned?
Look around you: What is happening to others?
Look above you: What does God expect of you?
Look besides you: What resources are available to you?”

“Growth inside fuels growth outside.”

“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.”

“Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.”

“Live to learn and you will really learn to live.”

“Stay focus on what God has assigned me to do. Keep my mind on what I am doing/”

“Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.”

“You cannot enjoy others until you
enjoy yourself because you cannot give to others what you do not have.”

“A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential”

“One is too small a number to achieve greatness.”

“When was the last time you did something for the first time?”

“If you wouldn't follow yourself, why should anyone else?”

“The sum of all your thoughts comprises your overall attitude.”

“It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.”

“Maya Angelou observed you cant use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Sadly, too often creativity is smothered rather than nurtured. There has to be climate in which new ways of thinking, perceiving, questioning are encouraged.”

“When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.”

“You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.”

“One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.”

“Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business.”

“If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.”