Quotes from John C. Maxwell

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.

I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.

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

Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

Live to learn and you will really learn to live.

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

You cannot enjoy others until you enjoy yourself because you cannot give to others what you do not have.

It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.

The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.

A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential

Maya Angelou observed you cant use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Sadly,too often creativity is smothered rather than nurtured. There has to be climate in which new ways of thinking,perceiving, questioning are encouraged.

The sum of all your thoughts comprises your overall attitude.

If you wouldn't follow yourself, why should anyone else?

Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business.

When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about themselves, and small people talk about others

The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others – not yourself – first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification. You should ask yourself, What does the team need? Not, What will make me feel better?

Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.

One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.

Life is now in session. Are you present?

If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.