John C. Maxwell
American author and leadership expert, born 1947
84 quotes.
Quotes by John C. Maxwell
- Never underestimate the power of an encouraging word.
- No matter how big your goals and dreams are, if you don’t change the way you think and act, you won’t see transformation.
- Nobody achieves anything great by giving the minimum.
- People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
- People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.
- Position is a poor substitute for influence.
- Positive thinking must be followed by positive doing.
- Progress does not occur without change.
- Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.
- Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.
- Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.
- Successful people don't have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.
- Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.
- Tenacious people don’t rely on luck, fate, or destiny for their success. And when conditions become difficult, they keep working.
- The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.
- The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.
- The Difference between ORDINARY and EXTRAORDINARY is that little EXTRA.
- The difference between where we are and where we want to be is created by the changes we are willing to make in our lives. When you want something you've never had, you must do something you've never done to get it.
- The first person we must examine is ourselves.
- The goal of all learning is action, not knowledge.
- The greatest danger to most organizations is not external threats, but internal weaknesses.
- The greatest enemy of learning is knowing.
- The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
- The highway of life is filled with flat squirrels that couldn't make a decision.
- The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.
- The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.
- The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.
- The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying.
- The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.
- The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.
- We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.
- We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves.
- Whenever you make a commitment to another person, you create hope. When you keep that commitment, you create trust.
- Winners do what is right and then they feel good. Whiners want to feel good before they do what is right. Are you a winner or a whiner?
- You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.
- You can’t grow yourself unless you know yourself.
- You don't overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.
- You haven't been given life to test the waters; you were created to make waves.
- You need to inspect what you expect
- Your attitude is either your best friend or your worst enemy, your greatest asset or your greatest liability.