John C. Maxwell: Quotes about people

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to… failure.”

“People are never able to outperform their self-image.”

“Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom though failure. We get very little wisdom from success.”

“Successful people do two things that many other people don’t: They initiate action, and they finish what they start.”

“Successful people don’t allow their feelings to determine their behavior. They behave their way into feeling so that they can do what they must to grow and keep moving forward.”

“Successful people are realistic about their problems and find positive ways to approach them.”

“Most people would rather change their circumstances to improve their lives when instead they to change themselves to improve their circumstances.”

“Most failures are people who have the habit of making excuses.”

“Some people treat adversity as a stepping stone, others as a tombstone.”

“Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and then become more extraordinary because of it.”

“People begin to make the biggest changes when they hurt enough to have to.”

“The most common trait in successful people: They have conquered the temptation to give up.”