Top 1101 Quotes & Sayings by John C. Maxwell - Page 5

True success comes only when every generation continues to develop the next generation.

Diligent follow-up and follow-through will set you apart from the crowd and communicate excellence.

Leadership is developed daily, not in a day.

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.

The person who forgets the ultimate is a slave to the immediate.

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

There are three qualities a leader must exemplify to build trust: competence, connection, and character.

We are either the masters or victims of our attitudes. It is a matter of personal choice. Who we are today is the result of choices we made yesterday. Tomorrow, we will become what we choose today. To change means to choose change.

We cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with our beliefs.

While we don't always get what we want, we always get what we choose.

Great leaders understand that the right attitude will set the right atmosphere, which enables the right response from others.

Live to learn and you will really learn to live.

Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.

To reach your potential you must grow. And to grow, you must be highly intentional about it.

Your goal as a leader isn't to be indispensable to the people you lead; it is to leave your people something that is indispensable to them.

Good ideas have expiration dates. You need to act before they become dated, irrelevant or otherwise spoiled.

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.

Life is now in session. Are you present?

The strength of any organization is a direct result of the strength of its leaders.

Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.

Image is what people think we are. Integrity is what we really are.

Question for God every morning: What is the main event today? What do you want me to focus on today?

Never underestimate the power of an encouraging word.

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

Successful people reject rejection.

The best way to serve the individuals on the team is to see that the whole team wins.

The greatest of all miracles is that we need not be tomorrow what we are today. The greatest of all insights is that we cannot be tomorrow what we do not do today. That is why today matters.

As negative thoughts produce negative actions, so positive thoughts produce positive actions.

The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying

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

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

Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.

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

Our attitude is the primary force that will determine whether we succeed or fail.

What most people really want is to be listened to, respected, and understood.

Never allow others to think you always have the best answers. This will only make them dependent on you.

Seek people who seek solutions.

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.

I'm not where I'm supposed to be, I'm not what I want to be, But I'm not what I used to be. I haven't learned how to arrive; I've just learned how to keep going

As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.

Everyone is a leader because everyone influences someone.

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

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

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

When you realize that people treat you according to how they see themselves rather than how you really are, you are less likely to be affected by their behavior.

The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.

What you are going to be tomorrow, you are becoming today.

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

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

If you really want to be a successful leader, you must develop other leaders around you. You must establish a team.

Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working.

People will work eight hours a day for pay, 10 hours a day for a good boss, and 24 hours a day for a good cause!

Listen twice as much as you speak.

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

Every person has seeds of greatness within, even though they may currently be dormant.

Most people use two totally different sets of criteria for judging themselves versus others. We tend to judge others according to their actions. It's very cut-and-dried. However, we judge ourselves by our intentions. Even if we do the wrong thing, if we believe our motives were good, we let ourselves off the hook. And we are often willing to do that over and over before requiring ourselves to change.

A person sometimes can't make a decision unless they know what decision to make.

The trials and pressures of life--and how we face them--often define us. Confronted by adversity, many people give up while others rise up. How do those who succeed do it? They persevere. They find the benefit to them personally that comes from any trial. And they recognize that the best thing about adversity is coming out on the other side of it. There is a sweetness to overcoming your troubles and finding something good in the process, however small it may be. Giving up when adversity threatens can make a person bitter. Persevering through adversity makes one better.

Sometimes the best way to learn is to return to the fundamentals.

The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.