John C. Maxwell Quotes

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it's almost always due to personal growth.

The first person you lead is you.

While everyone exercises influence, the size and strength of our influence depends upon our effort. No one leads well without paying the price of discipline. As we push ourselves to grow and to learn, we enlarge our sphere of influence.

If you take control of your behavior, your emotions will fall into place.

Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude.

Competence goes beyond words. It's the leader's ability to say it, plan it, and do it in such a way that others know that you know how - and know that they want to follow you.

Cooperation is working together agreeably... Collaboration is working together aggressively; and theres a world of difference between those two.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

When your great players are team players, everybody else follows their lead. The best team doesn't always win - it's usually the team that gets along best.

Sometimes I hear people talk about discipline of self and I think, if you don't have passion, I might discipline myself for a week or two but only passion will hold me steady.

When you are bigger than your purpose you have a career. When your purpose is bigger than you, you have a calling.

One of the best ways to cultivate a possibility mind set is to prompt yourself to dream one size bigger than you normally do. Let's face it, most people dream too small, they don't think big enough.

I remember as a seventeen-year-old kid saying, "If attitude made me captain of this team, I'm going to have a good attitude all my life."

As long as a person doesn't know what he doesn't know, he doesn't grow

Without failure there is no achievement.

A leader's ability to convey confidence and his ability to communicate effectively are similar.

The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying

If you desire to become a more generous person, don't wait for your income to change. Change your heart.

If you don’t try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get.

You can never be more outside of you, than what's in you

The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.

Question for God every morning: What is the main event today? What do you want me to focus on today?

Leaders never outgrow the need to change.

Leaders don't rise to the pinnacle of success without developing the right set of attitudes and habits; they make every day a masterpiece.

We won't fully experience joy until we've answered life's biggest question: Why am I here?

Good attitudes among players do not guarantee a team's success, but bad attitudes guarantee it's failure.

Grow a leader-grow the organization. A company cannot grow without until its leaders grow within.

You realize that we over-exaggerate yesterday, we over-estimate tomorrow and we underestimate today. We think, "Well, I'm going to kill time," "I'll get back to this tomorrow."

One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination.

The primary limitation in life is our low expectations for ourselves and others. When we expect minimum results, that's usually what we get.

Practice the 101 Percent Principle. Whenever possible, find the 1 percent you do agree on in a difficult situation, and give it 100 percent of your effort.

Plan and execute your first failure so that you no longer have to fear it.

Loyalty to the leader reaches its highest peak when the follower has personally grown through the mentorship of the leader.

I literally wrote a book on it called Your Roadmap For Success. And in it I said success is three things: knowing my purpose in life, I think it's impossible for anybody to be successful until they really discover why they're here on earth and what God has planned for them; secondly, growing to my maximum potential.

When somebody tells you he or she is leading something, a fair question is, "What is your vision?"

The best leaders realize their success depends on their people.

Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for inspiration. 4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity. 5) Dream big. 6) Plan your priorities. 7) Give up to go up.

To really become motivated to succeed, people need to believe they can win.

The bookends of success are starting and finishing. Decisions help us start; discipline helps us finish.

For the person trying to do everything alone, the game really is over. If you want to do something big, you must link up with others. One is too small a number to achieve greatness. That's the Law of Significance.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean giving up familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, and relationships that have lost their meaning.

Creativity requires the willingness to look stupid.

You'll never find out what you can do, until you do all you can to find out

Listen twice as much as you speak.

Successful people don't have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.

I talk about my daily dozen in the book [ Today Matters]. Twelve things that are certainly attainable by any of us that we need to manage every day.