Quotes from John C. Maxwell

3. People buy into the leader before they buy into the plan.

we are today where our thoughts have brought us, and we will go tomorrow where our thoughts take us.

Preparation may not guarantee a win, but it sure puts you in position for one.

The very moment that you make the shift to finding your purpose, growing to your potential, and helping others, successful is something you are right now, not something you vaguely hope one day to be.

No matter what you teach the child, he insists on behaving like his parents.

Leaders are change agents, not change resisters.

When you hear someone say, Now this is just off the top of my head, expect dandruff. The only people who believe thinking is easy are those who don't habitually engage in it.

As playwright George Bernard Shaw observed, "The greatest problem with communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.

What you believe identifies who you are.

rey del antiguo Israel, declaró: «De más estima es el buen nombre que las muchas riquezas, y la buena fama más que la plata y el oro».2 Pero la buena reputación es el reflejo del carácter de la persona. Si la reputación es como el oro, entonces tener integridad es como ser dueño de la mina. Preocúpese menos por lo que otros piensan y préstele atención a su carácter interno.

Los líderes llegan a ser sobresalientes no por su poder, sino por su habilidad para empoderar a otros.

We teach what we know, but we reproduce what we are.

leading isn't about controlling; it's about releasing.

I believed that if you have the heart to make a difference, there is always an answer, but if you have a heart of indifference, there is never an answer.

A TABLE: FEW TO MANY—IT ENABLES GROWTH The birth of transformation starts in the heart of an individual, and the growth of the movement happens around a table. Mass movements don't begin with the masses. They begin with a few people. When people can sit around the table together as equal contributors, everyone wins.

THE DIFFERENCE THAT REALLY MAKES A DIFFERENCE

Only when you make the right changes to your thinking do other things begin to turn out right.

Todos tenemos el potencial de vivir más allá de lo mediocre.

You will never get to the point that you no longer make mistakes, that you no longer fail. But that's okay.

Success without a successor is ultimately failure.

A belief is not just an idea that you possess; it is an idea that possesses you.

Ben Franklin quipped, Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall receive it. Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking.

REAL: relationships, equipping, attitude, and leadership.

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' successes.