Quotes from John C. Maxwell

How people treat you is their karma. How you react is yours." —Wayne W. Dyer

When you make a commitment, you create hope. When you keep a commitment, you create trust.

Every message that people receive is filtered through the messenger who delivers it.

Preparation (growth) + Attitude + Opportunity + Action (doing something about it) = Luck

The Right Thought plus the Right People in the Right Environment at the Right Time for the Right Reason = the Right Result

The problem with popular thinking is that it doesn't require you to think at all." —Kevin Myers

We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all." —Donald M. Nelson

If you pair excellence with humility, people not only won't run over you, they will respect you.

The younger you are, the more likely you will give your attention to many things. That's good because if you're young you're still getting to know yourself, your strengths and weaknesses. If you focus your thinking on only one thing and your aspirations change, then you've wasted your best mental energy. As you get older and more experienced, the need to focus becomes more critical. The farther and higher you go, the more focused you can be—and need to be.

If you keep nonproductive people, the productive ones become frustrated and leave. If you remove the people who don't add value, then the whole team gets better. It's just like trimming trees: If you don't cut the deadwood, eventually the whole tree falls. But if you remove the deadwood, the tree becomes healthier, the healthy branches produce more, and there's room for productive new branches on the tree.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

John Wesley: "Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.

What's true for a teammate is also true for the leader: If you don't grow, you gotta go.

We need to decide how we want to be treated. Then we need to begin treating others in that manner.

Sometimes we are afraid because success puts pressure on us to continue to succeed.

If I wanted to make a difference… Wishing for things to change wouldn't make them change. Hoping for improvements wouldn't bring them. Dreaming wouldn't provide all the answers I needed. Vision wouldn't be enough to bring transformation to me or others. Only by managing my thinking and shifting my thoughts from desire to deeds would I be able to bring about positive change. I needed to go from wanting to doing.

The beauty of trust is that it erases worry and frees you to get on with other matters. Trust means confidence." —Stephen M.R. Covey

When it comes to taking risks, I believe there are two kinds of people: those who don't dare try new things, and those who don't dare miss them.

Today Matters People create success in their lives by focusing on today. It may sound trite, but today is the only time you have. It's too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow. That's why today matters.

As a leader, you don't earn any points for failing in a noble cause. You don't get credit for being "right" as you bring the organization to a halt. Your success is measured by your ability to actually take the people where they need to go. But you can do that only if the people first buy into you as a leader.

Action is what converts human dreams into significance.

isn't fair. It isn't going to be fair. Stop sniveling and whining and go out and make it happen for you. Wishing that a risk wasn't yours to take won't make it any easier. In fact, it might make it harder. Your attitude about it is your choice.

Good leaders know when to display emotions and when to delay them.

The Situation Principle: Never let the situation mean more than the relationship.