Top 1101 Quotes & Sayings by John C. Maxwell - Page 3

When you are bigger than your purpose you have a career. When your purpose is bigger than you, you have a calling.

It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.

True success is obeying God.

If your habits don't line up with your dream, then you need to either change your habits or change your dream

So think long and hard about who you're spending the most time with, for wherever they are headed, so are you.

God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don't want to make mistakes.

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

You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.

If you can learn to understand people how they think, what they feel, what inspires them, how they're likely to act and react in a given situation- then you can motivate and influence them in a positive way.

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

Giving is the highest level of living.

You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.

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

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

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

SUCCESS is when I add value to MYSELF. SIGNIFICANCE is when I add value to OTHERS.

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.

When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.

Make personal growth a daily priority.

You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.

The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.

People who blame others for their failures never overcome them. They simply move from problem to problem. To reach your potential, you must continually improve yourself, and you can't do that if you don't take responsibility for your actions and learn from your mistakes.

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.

You add value to people when you value them.

Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.

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.

If you lack initiative, recognize that the problem comes from the inside, not from others. Determine why you hesitate to take action. Does risk scare you? Are you discouraged by past failures? Do you not see the potential that opportunity offers? Find the source of your hesitation, and address it. You won't be able to move forward on the outside until you can move forward on the inside.

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

The best gift you can ever give your mentor is to grow. They feed off your growth. I believe that everyone has the seed of success inside, but too many people can't find it in themselves and as a result do not reach their potential. But there are those whose purpose in life is to fertilize the seed of potential in another, who are rewarded by seeing that person grow and blossom before their eyes. Raising up others to a higher level is a mentor's joy and sustenance.

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

When you make a commitment, you create hope. When you keep a commitment you create trust!

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

Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.

Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.

Dont ever be impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and moving to a higher level of performance always requires change, and change feels awkward. But take comfort in the knowledge that if a change doesn't feel uncomfortable, then it's propably not really a change.

Find your vision, and let it guide you in all that you do. If you lack vision, look inside yourself. Draw on your natural gifts and desires.

Believing in people before they have proved themselves is the key to motivating people to reach their potential.

The person who insists on using yesterday's methods in today's world won't be in business tomorrow

Nothing speaks like results. If you want to build the kind of credibility that connects with people, then deliver results before you deliver a message. Get out and do what you advise others to do. Communicate from experience.

Commitment comes as a result of choice, not conditions.

Leading well is not about enriching yourself - it's about empowering others

People go farther than they thought they could when someone else thinks they can.

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

Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking.

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing. That's the Law of Consistency. It doesn't matter how talented you are. It doesn't matter how many opportunities you receive. If you want to grow, consistency is key.

By choosing to embrace and practice good values every day, you choose the higher course in life. And your life goes in a direction that you will always feel good about. You may not always get what you desire, but you will always be the person you desire to be.

Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.

You'll never find out what you can do, until you do all you can to find out

We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.

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.

To lead yourself, use your head; to lead others, use your heart. Always touch a person's heart before you ask him for a hand.

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

Without a vision people and the church become self-centered. People start finding fault with one another and the church self-destructs.

There is definitely a connection between finding your passion and reaching your potential. People ask me all the time, 'John, how do I know what I am meant to do in life?' The answer is really simple: Energy and Excellence. When you experience unbounded energy in what you are doing, when you are driven to excellence in your work and love what you do - then you can rest assured that you have found your passion and are definitely in pursuit of your full potential.

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

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

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.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.