John C. Maxwell Quotes

If you're always at the head of the class, then you're in the wrong class.

The harder you try to forget something, the more you think about it subconsciously.

When problems confront successful leaders, they get excited about the opportunity.

Integrity is not so much what we do as much as who we are.

Leadership ability determines a person's level of effectiveness.

Goals not only help you develop initial motivation by making your dreams obtainable, but they also help you continue to be motivated and that creates momentum.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

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.

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

A person who refuses to risk change fails to grow.

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

It is the leaders job to add significance to the lives of the people he leads.

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

Integrity is the most needed to succeed in business.

If you're going to play together as a team, you've got to care for one another. you've got to love each other.

You'll never know how close you are to a million-dollar idea unless you're willing to listen.

One way to overcome our natural self-centeredness is to try to see things from other people's perspectives.

They biggest man with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest man with the smallest mind-think big anyway.

Everybody can be somebody when somebody understands and believes in her.

The ability to understand people is a choice.

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

If you want to achieve great things, you need to have a great dream.

Like every person, every thought has the potential to become something great.

The best relationships are win-win. Why don't more people go into relationships with that attitude?

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

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

42% of college graduates never read a book after college.

Thinking is hard; that's why so few do it.

The bottomline in leadership isn't how far we advance ourselves but how far we advance others.

People are training for success when they should be training for failure.

To do something really big, let go of your ego, and get ready to be part of a team.

Talk to people, not above them.

Encourage the many; mentor the few.

You can't become a leader in one conference.

Successful people are willing to do things unsuccessful people will not do.

Point out a great strength of someone in your life today!

Too often when people think of their journey into leadership, they envision a career path. What they should be thinking about is their own leadership development!

God uses people who fail - Cause there aren't any other kind around.

Growth today is an investment for tomorrow.

Leaders who practice the Law of Victory believe that anything less than success is unacceptable. And they have no Plan B.

The leader finds the dream and then the people. The people find the leader and then the dream.

Success is not what you leave to but what you leave behind

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

Before you can do anything else in the lives of others, you must show them love.

The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once.

You can't light another's path without casting light on your own.

God will give to you what He knows will flow through you.

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

The real leader holds the power, not just the position.

A dream is an inspiring picture of the future that energizes your mind, will, and emotions, empowering you to do everything you can to achieve it.