John C. Maxwell famous quotes

Show me a person who sees himself negatively and I will show you a person who sees others in a negative way.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Stay Positive #Negative #Way

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Success #Winning #Secret

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Being Strong #Wisdom #Mistake

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Inspirational #Leadership #Basketball

To be an influencer, you have to love people before you can try to lead them.
-- John C. Maxwell

#People #Trying #Influence

Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Mistake #Growth #Next

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Inspirational #Spiritual #Attitude

The first person you lead is you.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Firsts #Persons

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

#Positive #Comfort #Growing

Since an attitude is often expressed by our body language and by the looks on our faces, it can be contagious.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Attitude #Stay Positive #Looks

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Motivational #Inspiring #Leadership

A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Inspirational #Success #Leadership

The secret of successful people lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Lying #Wrestling #Successful

To measure a leader, put a tape around his heart, not his head.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Heart #Leader #Tape

We were created for meaningful work, and one of life's greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Meaningful #Jobs #Done

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

#Numbers #People #Leader

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Leadership

Failure is not a one-time event; it's how you deal with life along the way. Until you breathe your last breath, you're still in the process, and there is still time to turn things around for the better.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Events #Way #Lasts

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

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

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.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Jobs #Mean #Differences

To grow yourself, you must know yourself.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Know Yourself #Grows

Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Motivational #Leadership #Inspiration

..Give them your faith, and they become confident, energized, and self-reliant.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Self #Giving #Influence

Praise them for what they do well, both privately and publicly.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Influence #Praise #Wells

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

#Comfort #Steps #Comfort Zone

To connect with people, be yourself, at your best.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Being Yourself #People

The best way to help people is to see the best in them.
-- John C. Maxwell

#People #Way #Helping

If you think you are the entire picture, you will never see the big picture.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Thinking #Bigs #Big Picture

Your core values are the deeply held beliefs that authentically describe your soul.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Soul #Belief #Core Values

Life is now in session. Are you present?
-- John C. Maxwell

#Inspiration #Life Is

You can't be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Attitude #Smart #Intelligence

You don't overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Inspirational #Challenges #Overcoming

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.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Wise #Mistake #Said

Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Leadership #Empowering #Leader

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

#People #Religion #Needs

Effective leaders sacrifice much that is good in order to dedicate themselves to what is best
-- John C. Maxwell

#Sacrifice #Order #Leader

Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Leadership #Character #Foundation

Successful leaders have the courage to take action while others hesitate.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Inspiration #Successful #Leader

Grow a leader-grow the organization. A company cannot grow without until its leaders grow within.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Organization #Leader #Company

If you desire to become a more generous person, don't wait for your income to change. Change your heart.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Heart #Waiting #Desire

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

#Thinking #Long #Spending

People are never able to outperform their self-image.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Self #People #Able

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Responsibility #Excuse #Taking Responsibility

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker
-- John C. Maxwell

#Teacher #Life And Love #Should

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Inspirational #Attitude #Choices

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.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Success #Perseverance #Determination

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

#Discipline #Achievement #Consistency

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

#Encouraging #Encouragement #Communication

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.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Integrity #Practice #Feel Good

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean giving up familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, and relationships that have lost their meaning.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Leadership #Giving Up #Mean

Earn the right to be heard by listening to others. Seek to understand a situation before making judgments about it.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Inspiration #Listening #Judgment

The greatest of all insights is that we cannot be tomorrow what we do not do today.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Today #Tomorrow #Insight

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

#Loyal #Tests #Succeed

When we trust God, He can make the ordinary extraordinary!
-- John C. Maxwell

#Wrestling #Ordinary #Trust In God

Leaders don't rise to the pinnacle of success without developing the right set of attitudes and habits; they make every day a masterpiece.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Attitude #Inspiration #Leader

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Leadership #Children #Boss

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

#Trying #Want #Endure

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.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Leadership #Encouragement #Successful

Leaders never outgrow the need to change.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Inspiration #Leader #Needs

A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. Few things in life are better than seeing people realize their potential. If you invest in people by helping individuals improve themselves, showing them the way to their “right place”, they will never be the same again. And neither will you. It is impossible to help others without helping yourself.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Successful #Helping Others #People

Integrity is not a given factor in everyone's life. It is a result of self-discipline, inner trust, and a decision to be relentlessly honest in all situations in our lives.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Integrity #Self #Discipline

Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Jobs #Boss #Demand

The person who forgets the ultimate is a slave to the immediate.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Forget #Slave #Persons

Never underestimate the power of an encouraging word.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Underestimate

Our attitude is the primary force that will determine whether we succeed or fail.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Attitude #Wrestling #Succeed

Inexperienced leaders are quick to lead before knowing anything about the people they intend to lead. But mature leaders listen, learn and then lead.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Knowing #People #Leader

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Leadership #Secret #Agendas

No one stands taller in the climb to success than when he bends over to help up someone else.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Helping #Climbs

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Leadership #Teacher #Encouragement

Pay now, play later; play now, pay later.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Procrastination #Play #Pay

To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Dream #Moving Forward #Adversity

If you travel alone, you can probably go faster. But the journey will never be as rewarding, and you probably won't be able to go as far.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Inspirational Life #Journey #Able

SUCCESS is when I add value to MYSELF. SIGNIFICANCE is when I add value to OTHERS.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Add #Significance #Values

Teamwork gives you the best opportunity to turn vision into reality.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Teamwork #Opportunity #Reality

Nobody can motivate himself in a positive direction by continually using negative words.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Negative

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Ideas #Shelves #Shelf Life

To achieve all that is possible, we must attempt the impossible. To be all we can be, we must dream of being more.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Dream #Inspirational Life #Impossible

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Choices #Matter #Life Is

You can never be more outside of you, than what's in you
-- John C. Maxwell

The true measure of leadership is influence - nothing more, nothing less.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Leadership #Influence

Doing the right thing daily, compounds over time.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Inspiration #Compounds #Doing The Right Thing

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

#Grows

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Leadership #Teamwork #Dream

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.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Inspiration #People #Connections

The timing of your decision is just as important as the decision you make.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Inspiration #Decision #Important

Don't wait until you feel positive to move forward. Act your way into feeling good.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Moving #Positive Thinking #Waiting

You are only an attitude away from success!
-- John C. Maxwell

#Attitude

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.
-- John C. Maxwell

#People #Want #Messages

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

#Discouraging #Caliber #Determine

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

#Smart #Inspiration #Hard Work

Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been because of Prayer
-- John C. Maxwell

#Prayer #Breakthrough

Make a point to continually search for a better way of doing things, even when things are going well, to ensure that a better alternative has not been overlooked and to keep your creative talents in practice.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Inspiration #Practice #Creative

Never allow others to put obstacles in the pathway of your dreams
-- John C. Maxwell

#Dream #Pathways #Obstacles

Have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must start with sowing excellent thoughts.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Success #Sowing #Excellent

The strength of any organization is a direct result of the strength of its leaders.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Organization #Leader #Results

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Clever #Today #Tomorrow

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

#Leadership #Followers #Raises

Great communication depends on two simple skills-context, which attunes a leader to the same frequency as his or her audience, and delivery, which allows a leader to phrase messages in a language the audience can understand.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Leadership #Communication #Simple

Decision-making takes care of goal-setting, but discipline also takes care of goal-getting. Decisions and discipline can't be separated; one is worthless without the other.
-- John C. Maxwell

#Inspiring #Discipline #Goal

A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential
-- John C. Maxwell

#Dream #Purpose #Blueprints