John C. Maxwell Quotes

Everyone is a leader because everyone influences someone.

Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.

Your life expands in proportion to your courage. Fear limits a leader.

Our destiny is determined, not by what we possess, but by what possess us.

So think long and hard about who you're spending the most time with, for wherever they are headed, so are you.

As a pastor I reinforced my vision over lunches.

I've worked very hard at giving excellent training and good materials, resources, books, and then the corporate community gives me respect. And I'm finding now that they really want a relationship with me, they're letting me in their lives, and of course, when you get in their lives you find a tremendous need for God.

Thank God for the tough times. They are the reason you are there - to be the leader. If everything was going well, the people wouldn't need you!

I had a horrible life habit that I had to change. And I think it's very true, the later we make decisions in life that are important, the harder it is to manage those decisions.

If you're a leader, it's important to set aside time to quiet yourself and listen for God's direction.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.

Dreams don't work unless you do

People of influence understand the incredible value of becoming a good listener.

Be willing to absorb some risk and failures to allow people freedom to express themselves.

..Give them your faith, and they become confident, energized, and self-reliant.

Leadership, like responsibility, is a voluntary act.

Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. How do you gain influence from people? You invest in them. How do you invest in them? It starts with giving them time.

When you make a commitment, you create hope. When you keep a commitment you create trust!

Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.

When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened.

In a word, most bad attitudes are the result of selfishness.

An organization cannot increase its productivity-but people can!

Talent allows people to stand out, but their wrong choices make them sit down.

When your through changing, your through!

I believe that everyone chooses how to approach life. If you're proactive, you focus on preparing. If you're reactive, you end up focusing on repairing.

Speak the truth. Transparency breeds legitimacy.

Without a vision people and the church become self-centered. People start finding fault with one another and the church self-destructs.

I am the recipient of many benefits that I do not deserve and did not earn. Someone else paid for them. I am grateful! How do I show my gratitude? By daily pouring into others and passing on to them the things that will allow them to run far and achieve beyond what I have done.

Leaders provide for their people what the people cannot provide for themselves.

The person who does only what he must when he is in the mood or when it's convenient isn't going to be successful.

If people around you don't believe in you, if they don't encourage you, then you need to find some people who do.

if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.

It's better to prepare than to repair.

To grow yourself, you must know yourself.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

Everyone you know and all the people you meet have the potential to be someone important in the lives of others.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

We all stand on the shoulders of the past generation.

The value you receive from reflective thinking will depend on the kinds of questions you ask yourself.

Big-picture thinkers broaden their outlook by striving to learn from every experience. They don't rest on their successes, they learn from them.

Good leaders understand that they are stewards. They must find the best people they can, giving them the opportunity to join in the journey developing them, and encouraging them to reach their potential. But they must hold on to people lightly. Those who start with you seldom finish with you.

The GREATEST battle you wage against FAILURE occurs on the INSIDE, not the OUTSIDE.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

While we don't always get what we want, we always get what we choose.

People go farther than they thought they could when someone else thinks they can.

I was greatly affected by a guy named Rob Briner, who died about five years ago, who wrote a book called "Roaring Lambs", which is a book on how to be salt and light in the secular community.

Actions are remembered long after words are forgotten.