"Everyone is a leader because everyone influences..." - Quote by John C Maxwell

“People say, "John, what's your personal growth?" And ask "How do you grow?" And I tell them. I thought, "Why do I keep telling them, why don't I just write a book on what I call personal growth?" And that's what this [Today Matters] book is.”

“It's been said that commitment is another name for success.”

“To gain credibility, you must consistently demonstrate three things: Initiative: You have to get up to go up. Sacrifice: You have to give up to go up. Maturity: You have to grow up to go up. If you show the way, people will want to follow you. The higher you go, the greater the number of people who will be willing to travel with you.”

“I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed.”

“I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.”

“The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.”

“Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along.”

“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”

“A small group of determined and like-minded people can change the course of history.”