John C. Maxwell Quotes

Nothing speaks like results. If you want to build the kind of credibility that connects with people, then deliver results before you deliver a message. Get out and do what you advise others to do. Communicate from experience.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.

You never display your character more clearly than when you speak about the character of others.

The average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business.

Be better tomorrow than you are today.

He who thinks he leads, but has no followers, is only taking a walk.

Even if you've had a negative effect on others in the past, you can turn that around and make your impact a positive one.

The collective influence of you and the other leaders will bring the rest along. If this does not happen, divided interest and loyalty will occur within the group.

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.

A word of Encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

The Wrong Person in the Wrong Place = Regression. The Wrong Person in the Right Place = Frustration. The Right Person in the Wrong Place = Confusion. The Right Person in the Right Place = Progression. The Right People in the Right Places = Multiplication.

Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking.

I hold conferences, and the result of that was that the secular community also started picking up my stuff, and pretty soon they wanted more. So I realized I could not only minister to the Christian community, but I could also minister to the corporate community. So my books started crossing over, and then I began to intentionally have them cross over.

I wish I could say I coined the phrase "failing forward." I do it all the time. I find as I've embraced this approach to business, life, cycling and generally any new endeavor I take on, I've grown more and more comfortable with the possibility that I am not likely to succeed on my first try. And that's ok.

Great communicators leave their audiences with great clarity.

I think passion and discipline are wonderful, complementary things.

Become a coach, not a king. A coach brings out the best in others, helping them to reach deep down inside and discover their potential. A king only gives commands.

Management is the process of assuring that the program and objectives of the organization are implemented. Leadership on the other hand has to do with casting vision and motivating people.

Every sailor knows that you can't sail a ship that isn't moving forward, strong leaders understand that to change direction, you first have to create forward progress.

COURAGE isn't an absence of fear. It is doing what you are afraid to do, letting go of the familiar and forging ahead into new territory. What I have discovered is that the best leaders have the courage to act - are willing to take the risk, make the statement, point the way, lead the way - when others hesitate out of fear. Effective leadership requires the ability to stand up, stand out, and the conviction to do it. I have never known a successful leader that was not courageous.

Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something.

Might you be missing opportunities because you have been too quick to ask how instead of why?

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

True Leadership always begins with the inner person.

The unexamined leader is not worth following.

People change when they hurt enough that they have to change, learn enough that they want to change, receive enough that they are able to change.

Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team.

The law of process says — leaders develop daily, not in a day.

If you treat every person you meet as if he or she were the most important person in the world, you'll communicate that he or she is somebody - to you.

A strategy that doesn't take into account resources is doomed to failure.

Nobody ever got ready by waiting. You only get ready by starting.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

You cannot have growth without change.

If we treat people as who they can become, they will be inspired to rise to the level of our expectations.

There are no half-hearted champions.

Coming together is a beginning, and staying together is progress, but only when teams sweat together do they find success.

Most people who want to get ahead do it backward. They think, 'I'll get a bigger job, then I'll learn how to be a leader.' But showing leadership skill is how you get the bigger job in the first place. Leadership isn't a position, it's a process.

The more people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.

There is no success without a successor.

When you believe in people, you motivate them and release their potential.

Successful people don’t wait for everything to be perfect to move forward.