Quotes from John C. Maxwell

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

The highway of life is filled with flat squirrels that couldn't make a decision.

It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.

If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn't show yet.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

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.

Your life begins to change when you change something you do every day.

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.

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

Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person's life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader's style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

When you find your spiritual gift, God will give you an opportunity to use it.

We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.

Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.

Must manage your thought life daily and then you can manage your life.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

Have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must start with sowing excellent thoughts.

People's purpose in life is always connected to their giftedness.

Good character improves every aspect of a person's life.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it's almost always due to personal growth.

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask 'Why?' ceaselessly.

The strength of any organization is a direct result of the strength of its leaders.