Quotes from John C. Maxwell

Author Napoleon Hill noted, "Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit." To develop persistence over the long haul, you have to cultivate inward determination on a continual basis. And if you do, someday your story may be similar to one of these: •Admiral Peary attempted to reach the North Pole seven times before he made it on try number eight.

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Imagen es lo que la gente piensa que somos. Integridad es lo que en realidad somos.

Better players make you a better player.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: The ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve." If you want to lead on the highest level, be willing to serve on the lowest.

When people respect someone as a person, they admire her. When they respect her as a friend, they love her. When they respect her as a leader, they follow her.

Ambassador and poet Henry Van Dyke observed, "There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

El fracaso es la oportunidad de comenzar de nuevo más inteligentemente.

If you lack self-discipline, you may be in the habit of having dessert before eating your vegetables.

Other times leaders have to hold their feelings in check. When I say that leaders should delay their emotions, I'm not suggesting that they deny them or bury them. 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.

Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency should head the list. —John C. Maxwell

Without the wise counsel and insightful answers I've received to questions over those decades, I wonder where I would be today.

There is nothing more tragic than when a Christian leader loses God's anointing on his life by allowing himself to become sidetracked. There is no higher violation of God's trust. For when a leader stumbles, others fall.

si hay poca o ninguna confianza, no hay fundamento para el éxito permanente.

Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-offs and its eager-beavers sooner or later will find itself with more goof-offs than eager-beavers.

Good leaders want the truth—even if it hurts.

Leaders gain credibility when they suffer with those they lead.

Doing for others what they can't do for themselves is really a matter of attitude. I believe that whatever I've been given is to be shared with others. And because I have an abundance mind-set, I never worry about running out myself. The more I give away, the more I seem to get to give away.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment you first find yourself in." —MARK CAINE

As you move forward on the success journey, you need to remember that what happens in you is more important than what happens to you.

People say there are two great days in a person's life: the day you were born and the day you discover why. I want to encourage you to seek what you were put on this earth to do. Then pursue it with all your effort.

A lot goes into an attitude—but a lot more comes out of it!

Productive leaders communicate the superiority and the benefits of their ideas.

Whenever people on my team come to me with a problem, I ask them to prepare at least three solutions to that problem.