Quotes from John C. Maxwell

Sometimes the best way to learn is to return to the fundamentals.

Your attitude is either your best friend or your worst enemy, your greatest asset or your greatest liability

When your great players are team players, everybody else follows their lead. The best team doesn't always win - it's usually the team that gets along best.

The best place for a leader isn't always at the top position. It is the place where they can serve the best and add the most value to other people.

The person who insists on using yesterday's methods in today's world won't be in business tomorrow

The average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business.

Talk to people, not above them.

The more credible you are, the more confidence people place in you, thereby allowing you the privilege of influencing their lives.

Don't wait until you feel positive to move forward. Act your way into feeling good.

When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.

People will not follow a leader who does not have confidence in himself.

Presence is a result of confidence. Presence... when we see it we feel it.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Dont ever be impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and moving to a higher level of performance always requires change, and change feels awkward. But take comfort in the knowledge that if a change doesn't feel uncomfortable, then it's propably not really a change.

Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.

Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.

True success comes only when every generation continues to develop the next generation.

Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.

He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.

You must do right before you feel good.

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