John C. Maxwell citations

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“Change occurs by following this process: New Information is accepted. A new attitude is adopted. A new behavior is practiced. New conviction influence others.”

“To grow you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past.”

“The person who insists on using yesterdays methods in today’s world won’t be in business tomorrow.”

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

“For everything we gain we lose something.”

“Leaders resist change as mush as followers do, unless the change is their idea.”

“Ignorance means you didn’t have the necessary knowledge. A person can hardly be blamed for that. Stupidity is the result of knowing what to do but not acting upon that knowledge.”

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

“Success lies in having made the effort; failure lies in never having tried.”

“Ninety Percent of those who fail are not actually defeated they simply quit.”

“Failure is the cost of seeking new challenges.”

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

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

“Positive thinking is how you think about a problem. Enthusiasm is how you feel about a problem. The two together determine what you do about the problem.”

“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak, but they are the instruments of the wise.”

“Circumstances does not make the man; it reveals him to himself. That is true only if you allow it to.”

“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.”

“As long as I am still learning, I will always have something to say and be able to add value to others.”

“It’s good to remember that in science, mistakes always precede discoveries. Be teachable.”

“Being teachable requires two things: Capacity and attitude.”

“Living to your full potential requires you to keep learning and expanding yourself.”

“Possessing the intentional attitude and behavior to keep learning and growing throughout life is teachability.”

“Positive thinking must be followed with positive doing.”

“It takes no courage to be an optimist, but it takes a great deal of courage to have hope.”

“Optimism is a passive virtue, hope is an active one.”

“Optimism is the belief that things will get better. Hope is the faith that, together, we can make things better.”

“Hope always has a future.”

“Losses in life are never fun, but there is one loss no one can afford to experience, the loss of hope.”