John C. Maxwell Quotes

The only adequate preparation for tomorrow is the right use of today.

Every relationship in your organization will affect you one way or another. Those who do not increase you will inevitably decrease you.

Knowing the future is difficult, controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.

Most accomplishments in life come more easily if you approach them strategically

Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated experience teaches everything.

Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership.

God gives us resources according to our dreams and according to our obedience. And God doesn't give those resources until we've started walking in obedience.

If you want to do something really big, do it as part of a team.

Smart leaders believe only half of what they hear. Discerning leaders know which have to believe.

Personnel determines the potential of the team. Vision determines the direction of the team. Work ethic determines the preparation of the team. Leadership determines the success of the team.

Your teammates will stretch your vision or choke your dream.

Every journey toward a dream is personal, and as a result, so is the price that must be paid for it.

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

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

Not everybody who has a vision is a leader, but every leader has a vision.

When the pastor and his or her church have a vision, they will put their energy, time, money, and personnel into achieving it.

Progress is often just a good idea away.

People who love life have charisma because they fill the room with positive energy.

One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail.

One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish much. Success is the result of people pulling together to meet common goals.

Birds of a feather really do flock together.

God gives us the vision, then He expects us to walk in obedience. As we do, the resources we need come to us.

You see, when our attitudes outdistance our abilities, even the impossible becomes possible.

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

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

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.

Commitment comes as a result of choice, not conditions.

Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.

What you are going to be tomorrow, you are becoming today.

People knowledge is much more important than mere product knowledge.

You can't move people to action unless you first move them with emotion. The heart comes before the head.

To go nowhere, follow the crowd.

Our attitudes cannot stop our feelings, but they can keep our feelings from stopping us.

When we are foolish, we want to conquer the world. When we are wise, we want to conquer ourselves. That begins when we do what we should no matter how we feel about it.

A sense of responsibility is the clearest indication of mature leadership.

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.

Insecure leaders think everything is about them, and as a result, every action, every piece of information, every decision is put through their filter of self-centeredness.

A person of responsibility can trust himself to choose the right thing over the easy thing.

Nothing is as hard as it looks; everything is more rewarding than you expect; and if anything can go right it will and at the best possible moment.

As you interact with others, remember this: anytime a person's response is larger than the issue at hand, the response is almost always about something else.

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!

Hope is not strategy. Hope fits with vision, but we must have a strategy and a process to make our vision become a reality.

But the law of magnetism really is true: who you are is who you attract.

I've never known a person focused on yesterday to have a better tomorrow.

It is truly one day at a time.

If you live life with the intention of making a difference in others' lives, your life will be full not empty.

Everyone who got where he is started where he was.

No matter if you're just starting out or if you are at the peak of your career, the more you work in your strength zone, the more successful you will be.

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