Quotes from John C. Maxwell

That grumpy woman didn't deserve to be treated kindly. But when she was treated not as she was, but as I wanted her to be and believed she could become, her perspective suddenly changed.

However, as a leader, if you can add results to relationships and develop a team of people who like each other and get things done, you have created a powerful combination.

An infant is born with a clenched fist; a man dies with an open hand. Life has a way of prying free the things we think are so important.

La concentración dividida siempre trabaja en forma negativa.

Leadership expert Peter Drucker says, "The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes . . . otherwise he is sure to be mediocre." Mistakes really do pave the road to achievement.

The thoughts in your mind will always be more important than the things in your life. Choose happiness.

Crisis doesn't necessarily make character, but it certainly does reveal it.

Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle asserted, "A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress on even the smoothest road." What a great image. Purpose gives you drive. It shows you a destination. It paints a picture of your future. It energizes you. And it makes obstacles and problems seem small in comparison to its importance.

Nothing's work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

A leader cannot demand of others what he does not demand of himself.

The price of greatness is responsibility." That

He knew that if you oversee people and you wish to develop leaders, you are responsible to: (1) appreciate them for who they are; (2) believe that they will do their very best; (3) praise their accomplishments; and (4) accept your personal responsibility to them as their leader.

Cuál es la diferencia entre un obstáculo y una oportunidad? Nuestra actitud hacia él. Toda oportunidad tiene una dificultad y toda dificultad tiene una oportunidad».1

As you and I grow and improve as leaders, so will those we lead. We need to remember that when people follow us, they can only go as far as we go. If our growth stops, our ability to lead will stop along with it.

at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Being willing to give up some of the things you love in order to focus on what has the greatest impact isn't an easy lesson to learn. But the earlier you embrace it, the sooner you can dedicate yourself to excellence in what matters most.

The best way to become a person that others are drawn to is to develop qualities that we are attracted to in others. Just

You are nothing unless it comes from your heart. Passion, caring, really looking to create excellence. If you perform functions only and go to work only to do processes, then you are effectively retired. And it scares me—most people I see, by age twenty-eight are retired.

To limit our lives to our past experiences is to cheat ourselves from developing our potential and increasing our possibilities for success. Mark Twain said, "If a cat sits on a hot stove, it will never sit on a hot stove again. Of course, it will never sit on a cold one either." Forget your past failures and begin to enlarge your expectations for tomorrow.

Law of Diminishing Intent, which says, "The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.

Las palabras son el vehículo de las ideas y tienen el poder de cambiar el mundo.

No matter where you are in your leadership journey, never forget that what got you to where you are won't get you to the next level.

Reward only finished work: It's good to praise effort, but you should never reward it. Give

Most people don't know this, but it's easier to go from failure to success than from excuses to success.