John C. Maxwell Quotes

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

Never allow others to think you always have the best answers. This will only make them dependent on you.

It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.

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We don't mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

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

You win people's hearts by helping them grow personally.

Successful people...focus on the rewards of success: learning from their mistakes and thinking about how they can improve themselves and their situations.

What I find them struggling most isn't with one of the twelve [things from daily list]; I find them struggling with what decisions to make.

The key to encouragement is in knowing what gives people courage; what spurs them on to action.

A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

It's been said that commitment is another name for success.

You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.

Confront your inadequacies and push your personal boundaries: It's the surest way to grow, improve and expand the scope of your influence.

Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess.

You can be a model to the masses, but to go to the higher levels of influence, you have to work with individuals.

To you to live a significant life, you have to become intentional.

..Our level of influence is not the same with everyone.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. Many people who approach the area of vision in leadership have it backwards. They believe that if the cause is good enough, people will automatically buy in and follow. But that's not how leadership works. People don't follow worthy causes; they follow worthy leaders with a cause they can believe in. They buy into the leader first.

Great leaders understand that the right attitude will set the right atmosphere, which enables the right response from others.

Our days are like identical suitcases. Even though they are all the same size, some people are able to pack more into them then others. The reason? They know what to pack.

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.

The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.

Without a vision our community will perish without Christ, but without a vision the church will perish as well.

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

I think we impress people by our success, but I think we impact them by our failures.

If you focus on goals, you may hit goals - but that doesn't guarantee growth. If you focus on growth, you will grow and always hit goals.

If your desire is a 10 but your self-esteem is a 5, you'll never perform at the level of a 10. You'll perform as a 5 or lower. People are ever able to outperform their self-image.

The better you are at surrounding yourself with people of high potential, the greater your chance for success.

There is a world of difference between a person who has a big problem and a person who makes a problem big.

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

Vision is something pastors and churches cannot afford to live without.

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

Life is now in session. Are you present?

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.

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

Not realizing what you want is a problem of knowledge. Not pursuing what you want is a problem of motivation. Not achieving what you want is a problem of persistence.

Nobody can motivate himself in a positive direction by continually using negative words.

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.

Dependable teams members possess the desire to do the things they are capable of doing.

Lasting motivation proceeds forth from the heart. People can be temporarily motivated by other people and things around them. Permanent, enduring motivation, however, can only come from within.

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

To lead yourself, use your head; to lead others, use your heart. Always touch a person's heart before you ask him for a hand.

To measure a leader, put a tape around his heart, not his head.

We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

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.

The company owner doesn't need to win. The best idea does.

The younger you are, the more experimenting you should do. But once you've found what you were created to do, stick with it.