Quotes from John C. Maxwell

You lose the respect of the best when you don't deal properly with the worst.

you must be able to take the new thing you've learned today and build upon what you learned yesterday to keep growing.

A team is a group of people who may not be equal in experience, talent, or education but in commitment.

Uniformity is not the key to successful teamwork. The glue that holds a team together is unity of purpose.

Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family background; they are measured by the size of their thinking." —DAVID SCHWARTZ

Philanthropist Andrew Carnegie declared, "It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone." To do something really big, let go of your ego, and get ready to be part of a team.

Average" is the top of the bottom, the best of the worst, the bottom of the top, the worst of the best. Which of these are you?

English heart surgeon Martyn Lloyd-Jones asserted, "Most unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself rather than talking to yourself.

Errors become mistakes when we perceive them and respond to them incorrectly. Mistakes become failures when we continually respond to them incorrectly.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

The highest compliment you can give someone is to ask them their opinion.

Leadership is a moving target, and it always will be. If you desire to become a better leader, get comfortable with change. And if you want to lead up, learn to think like a leader. Think people, think progress, and think intangibles.

If you make it your discipline to do a little bit of growing every day, in just a few years you will be amazed by your transformation.

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." That may be true. But it's also true that you can feed a horse salt and make him thirsty.

Failure isn't failure if you do better the next time.

As Michel de Montaigne observed, "No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Few things will pay you bigger dividends in life than the time and trouble you take to understand people and build relationships. As

Your attitude colors every aspect of your life. It is like the mind's paintbrush.

The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

People don't remember what we think is important; they remember what they think is important.

The greatest problem with communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.

THE QUESTION I MUST ASK MYSELF: DO I TREAT OTHERS BETTER THAN THEY TREAT ME?

I got to the top the hard way—fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way.