John C. Maxwell Quotes

Leadership is the readiness to stand out in a crowd.

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.

It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.

Problems are not my problem. It's not what happens to me but what happens in me that matters.

Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

Mistakes are the stepping stones to success.

Brokenness involves removing inappropriate pride and self-reliance and building healthy God-reliance.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

A person who has a dream knows what he is willing to give up in order to go up.

Our attitude determines our approach to life.

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.

The size of your miracle depends on the size of your problem.

When a leader is upbeat in the face of discouraging circumstances, others admire that quality and want to be like her.

We all stand on the shoulders of the past generation.

A good leader encourages followers to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to hear.

A leader's lasting value is measured by succession.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential

An attitude is: an inward feeling expressed by an outward action.

As a leader, you will never get ahead until your people are behind you.

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

We feel unhappy and confused with our life when we don't do the focus or calling that God has on our life.

Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.

Find something you like to do so much that you would gladly do it for nothing; then learn to do it so well that people are happy to pay you for it.

Finish every day and be done with it.

Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership.

People change when they hurt enough that they have to change, learn enough that they want to change, receive enough that they are able to change.

You never display your character more clearly than when you speak about the character of others.

Successful people reject rejection.

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.

Never underestimate the power of an encouraging word.

Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.

Our attitude at the beginning of a task will affect its outcome more than anything else.

You've got to love your people more than your position.

It's easy to have a great attitude when things are going our way...It's when difficult challenges rise before us...that attitude becomes the difference maker.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business.

Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

Deciding what to be is more important than deciding what to do.

God has never given anybody a dream that He did not want that person to fulfill.

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.

If a person doesn't govern his temper, his temper will govern him.

People naturally follow leaders stronger than themselves.

If you focus on goals, you may hit goals - but that doesn't guarantee growth. If you focus on growth, you will grow and always hit goals.

Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.

To connect with people, be yourself, at your best.

Acquiring and keeping good people is a leader's most important task.