John C. Maxwell Quotes

If you don’t try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get.

Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.

You will become on the outside, what you believe on the inside.

You don't overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.

Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you've been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.

All leaders make mistakes. They are a part of life. Successful leaders recognize their errors, learn from them, and work to correct their faults.

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.

Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list.

Often people fail to start or complete a task because they don't see any connection between what they're doing and what they really want to accomplish in life.

Discipline - Success doesn't just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline.

Not realizing what you want is a problem of knowledge. Not pursuing what you want is a problem of motivation. Not achieving what you want is a problem of persistence.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

Credibility is a leader's currency. With it, he or she is solvent; without it, he or she is bankrupt.

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

It's true that charisma can make a person stand out for a moment, but character sets a person apart for a lifetime.

The first person you lead is you.

The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.

Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.

It's good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don't step out of your gift zone.

Your talk talks and your walk talks, but your walk talks louder than your talk talks.

It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.

Successful people don't have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.

Don't hide bad news. With multiple information channels available, bad news always becomes known. Be candid right from the start.

Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been because of Prayer

You add value to people when you value them.

Be intentional to add value to every person you meet everyday.

Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. How do you gain influence from people? You invest in them. How do you invest in them? It starts with giving them time.

It's better to prepare than to repair.

The better you are at surrounding yourself with people of high potential, the greater your chance for success.

True success is obeying God.

To measure a leader, put a tape around his heart, not his head.

I believe that everyone chooses how to approach life. If you're proactive, you focus on preparing. If you're reactive, you end up focusing on repairing.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker

You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous - is changed by it.

If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.

Maturity does not always come with age; sometimes age comes alone.

If your job is not making a difference in this world, by all means, get out there and find something else ... You’ll find a sense of making a difference through your work if you simply look for it.

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.

The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying

Don't buy into the notion that mistakes can somehow be avoided. They can't be.

Negative thinking limits God and our potential.

To succeed in life, we must stay within our strength zone but continually move outside our comfort zone.

Collaboration is multiplication.

Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.

The length and breath of our influence on others are directly related to the depth of our concern for them.

People can open doors for you, but you ... must walk through.

To add value to others, one must first value others.