Quotes from John C. Maxwell

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!

Your thinking, more than anything else, shapes the way you live. It's really true that if you change your thinking, you can change your life.

we need to make a few critical decisions in major areas of life and then manage those decisions day to day.

Business schools reward complex behavior but it's the simple behavior that makes you successful in life

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

Point out a great strength of someone in your life today!

Attitude isn't everything, but it is one thing that can make a difference in your life.

The most successful people in life are the ones who settle their critical issues early and manage them daily.

Remember, itÂ's the finish, not the start, that counts the most in life.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

To you to live a significant life, you have to become intentional.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

I say, make the decision, and as soon as you make the decision, the rest of your life you just manage that decision on a daily basis.

I felt the hand and the call of God in my life that I would be doing ministry and trying to serve Him the best that I could.

God has never given a dream that could be fulfilled at step one. So start walking, be obedient, and watch God fulfill that dream in your life.

I grew up in the home of a pastor, and my earliest memory is that God really had a plan for my life and that I was special - this is really weird - but I felt that.

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.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it's as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

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

Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

The happiest people are those who have harvested their time in others. The unhappiest people are those who wonder how the world is going to make them happy.

The only thing a title can buy is a little time-either to increase your level of influence with others or to undermine it.

Many people help construct our attitudes at a certain time and place.