John C. Maxwell Quotes

Too often when people think of their journey into leadership, they envision a career path. What they should be thinking about is their own leadership development!

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team's performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded people.

Leaders express feelings that other leaders sense.

Experiences isn't the best teacher - evaluated experience is.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

Three reasons problems are inevitable; first, we live in a world of growing complexity and diversity; second, we interact with people; and third, we cannot control all the situation we face.

Making a difference in your work is not about productivity; it’s about people. When you focus on others and connect with them, you can work together to accomplish great things.

The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.

You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.

The attitude of the leader affects the atmosphere of the office

I always find the greatest help I receive is from people who have been where I have been, but now they're no longer there.

The secret to success can be found in people's daily agendas. If they do something intentional to grow every day, they move closer to reaching their potential. If they don't, their potential slowly slips away over the course of their lifetime.

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.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

It is hard to feel bad about yourself when you are doing something good for someone else. There are a lot of ways to lift your self-esteem, but making a positive difference in another's life has got to be my best leadership guidance. Serving others and working to add value to them will lift your spirits in a way that nothing else will. Trust me on this one.

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

There are three qualities a leader must exemplify to build trust: competence, connection, and character.

If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.

The first important step in weathering failure is learning not to personalize it.

A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. Few things in life are better than seeing people realize their potential. If you invest in people by helping individuals improve themselves, showing them the way to their “right place”, they will never be the same again. And neither will you. It is impossible to help others without helping yourself.

You must find a way to get your vision seen, implemented, and contributed to by others.

Your core values are the deeply held beliefs that authentically describe your soul.

If everyone doesn't pay the price to win, then everyone will pay the price of losing.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

Every day I will renew my commitment and think about the benefits that come from it.

Most pastors have a hard time grasping a vision. But vision is the indispensable quality of a leader.

The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm.

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

You cannot buy or win happiness. You must choose it.

Churches whose members fight with one another have lost their vision for the lost.

Success is about us. Significance is about others.

I thought if I was open and honest, it would help the reader to get open and honest, and they also would realize sometimes when you write a book, people think you're an expert and that's not always true.

If you think you are the entire picture, you will never see the big picture.

Holding a grudge is never positive or appropriate.

A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large extent, by your habits.

The best place for a leader isn't always at the top position. It is the place where they can serve the best and add the most value to other people.

Nothing is more difficult to accomplish than changing outward actions without changing inward feelings.

I grew up in the home of a pastor, and my earliest memory is that God really had a plan for my life and that I was special - this is really weird - but I felt that.

Our attitude is the primary force that will determine whether we succeed or fail.

The size of a person is more important than the size of the problem.

Leadership is not a right-it is a responsibility.

I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me.

If your a leader, do everything you can to grow yourself and create the right environment for others to grow.

In the corporate community the key word is respect. In the corporate community you don't get a relationship until they respect you first.

My potential is what God gives me - that's His gift to me - what I give back to Him is what I do with that potential.

If your face is going to “talk” for you anyway, you might as well have it communicate something positive.

You are only an attitude away from success!