John C. Maxwell Quotes

We are responsible for our attitudes.

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

The happiest people are those who have harvested their time in others. The unhappiest people are those who wonder how the world is going to make them happy.

Coming together is a beginning, and staying together is progress, but only when teams sweat together do they find success.

The only thing a title can buy is a little time-either to increase your level of influence with others or to undermine it.

Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.

Encouragement is oxygen for the soul

We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves.

There is no such thing as a perfect flawless attitude.

A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him.

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

Everyone has the power to impact the outcome of his life. The way to do it is to focus on today. . . It is too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow.

Doing the right thing daily, compounds over time.

Leaders have two characteristics: first they are going somewhere, and second they are able to persuade other people to go with them.

If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.

Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.

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

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.

The leader's attitude helps determine the attitudes of the followers.

Leaders never outgrow the need to change.

Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team's performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded people.

To Stay Focused in Life: You can't know everyone You can't do everything You can't go everywhere We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.

If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone.

The true test of relationships is not only how loyal someone is when we fail, but how thrilled they are when we succeed.

The sum of all your thoughts comprises your overall attitude.

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.

Our attitude can give us an uncommonly positive perspective.

When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.

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

Leadership is not a right-it is a responsibility.

Experience isn't the best teacher - evaluated experience is.

An attitude's growth never stops.

Successful people do what is right no matter how they feel, and by doing right, they feel good.

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

Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all.

To help people believe they can achieve victory, put them in a position to experience small successes.

Negative thinking creates clouds at critical decision times.

You must find a way to get your vision seen, implemented, and contributed to by others.

Successful people make right decisions early and manage those decisions daily.

What I did in the book [Today Matters] is I tried to help a person make their day - every day - their masterpiece.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

When your through changing, your through!

Our attitude can turn our problems into blessings.