John C. Maxwell Quotes

If you think you are the entire picture, you will never see the big picture.

Rotten Attitudes ruin a team.

You must do right before you feel good.

A highly credible leader under-promises and over-delivers.

If you don't have the ability to see when to stand up and the conviction to do it, you'll never be an effective leader.

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

Good character improves every aspect of a person’s life.

Since an attitude is often expressed by our body language and by the looks on our faces, it can be contagious.

People may teach what they know, but they reproduce what they are.

You can be a model to the masses, but to go to the higher levels of influence, you have to work with individuals.

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

The whole idea of motivation is a trap, forget motivation, just do it

To get out of a hard situation, try a soft answer.

Circumstances do not make you what you are, they reveal what you are.

Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.

I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.

Leadership is influence.

The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.

Leaders will not experience long-term success unless a lot of people want them to.

No matter your title, people will not follow you if they don’t trust you.

Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life.

Seek people who seek solutions.

We fail, not because of big problems, but because of small purposes.

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

If your a leader, do everything you can to grow yourself and create the right environment for others to grow.

Success each day should be judged by the seeds sown, not the harvest reaped.

God doesn't move until we move first.

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.

You can't build a relationship with everybody in the room when you don't care about anybody in the room.

People must learn how to think well to achieve their dreams and to reach their potential.

If you want to attract people, you need to be like people you enjoy being with.

No matter where you are in your leadership journey, never forget that what got you to where you are won't get you to the next level.

Persuasive communication involves enthusiasm, animation, audience participation, authenticity and spontaneity.

One is too small a number to achieve greatness.

What you give to help others, builds them up enough that they are able to give to others. It's a cycle that can continue on long after you're dead and gone.

Connecting is the ability to identify with people and relate to them in a way that increases your influence with them.

A manager says 'go,' but a leader says 'let's go'.

You are only an attitude away from success!

Earn the right to be heard by listening to others. Seek to understand a situation before making judgments about it.

If you travel alone, you can probably go faster. But the journey will never be as rewarding, and you probably won't be able to go as far.

Everyone gets discourages...The question is: Are you going to give up or get up? It's a choice.

Leadership is the readiness to stand out in a crowd.

Never open a can of worms unless you plan to go fishing.

Your core values are the deeply held beliefs that authentically describe your soul.

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

A leader who produces other leaders multiples their influences.

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.

Anyone can steer a ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course

Nobody wanders his or her way to a dream, and nobody achieves a dream by accident. Don't shortcut the process and risk cheating yourself out of your dream!

A leader can give up anything - except final responsibility.