John C. Maxwell Quotes

“Be generous, be humble, and be grateful when achieving your dreams.”

“Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership.”

“The purpose of leadership is to take others to the top. And when you take others who might not make it to the top otherwise, there's no other feeling like it in the world. To those who have never had the experience, you can't explain it. To those who have, you don't need to.”

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

“There’s a difference between listening passively and listening aggressively. To listen with your heart, you have to listen actively.”

“Great leaders always have self-discipline -without exception.”

“If you want to reach your potential and become the person you were created to be, you must do much more than just experience life and hope that you learn what you need along the way. You must go out of your way to seize growth opportunities as if your future depended on it. Why? Because it does. Growth doesn't just happen--not for me, not for you, not for anybody. You HAVE TO go after it.”

“When a leader is upbeat in the face of discouraging circumstances, others admire that quality and want to be like her.”

“We often wait for the resources before we make a move.”

“Pay now, play later; play now, pay later.”

“Leaders never outgrow the need to change.”

“If you think you are the entire picture, you will never see the big picture.”

“Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.”

“Commitment comes as a result of choice, not conditions.”

“A dream is an inspiring picture of the future that energizes yourmind, will, and emotions, empowering you to do everything you can toachieve it.”

“Effective leaders don't gather things just for themselves; they do it in order to give to others.”

“A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him.”

“The more intentional you are about your leadership growth, the greater your potential for becoming the leader you're capable of being. Never stop learning.”

“When values, thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment, a person becomes focused and character is strengthened.”

“The harder you try to forget something, the more you think about it subconsciously.”

“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.”

“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. This sequence is something that all achievers have in common. They do not see a mistake is as their failure; rather it is simply a learning experience. Achievers view a mistake as an opportunity to do something over again and do it right the second time. A mistake is simply the price they pay to achieve success.”

“Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them. Stop failing backward and start failing forward!”

“Everything rises and falls on leadership.”

“Leaders express feelings that other leaders sense.”