Quotes from John C. Maxwell

We don't mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

They biggest man with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest man with the smallest mind-think big anyway.

Every change in human attitude must come through internal understanding and acceptance. Man is the only known creature who can reshape and remould himself by altering his attitude.

Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable.

Remember, at the time God gives us a vision, we never have the resources available to accomplish it. We don't have the people, the money, the knowledge, or the opportunity.

If you want to make your mother happy, talk to her. If you want to make your father happy, listen.

We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.

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

Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. How do you gain influence from people? You invest in them. How do you invest in them? It starts with giving them time.

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.

Always take the high road.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to...failure.

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

People will summarize your life in one sentence - Pick it now.

I think many people believe the best way they can help others is to criticize them, to give them the benefit of their 'wisdom.' I disagree. The best way to help people is to see the best in them.

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

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.

Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life.

Successful people reject rejection.

People naturally follow leaders stronger than themselves.

Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated experience teaches everything.