Quotes from John C. Maxwell

Successful people make right decisions early and manage those decisions daily.

Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.

If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.

Leadership is not a right-it is a responsibility.

Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.

Progress does not occur without change.

Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.

If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.

Creativity requires the willingness to look stupid.

Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership.

Every relationship in your organization will affect you one way or another. Those who do not increase you will inevitably decrease you.

Leadership is the power of one harnessing the power of many.

The real test of leadership isn't where you start out. It's where you end up.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

A sense of responsibility is the clearest indication of mature leadership.

But the law of magnetism really is true: who you are is who you attract.

Thank God for the tough times. They are the reason you are there - to be the leader. If everything was going well, the people wouldn't need you!

It was in the mid-70's, '74 or '75 I started doing leadership conferences for pastors and in '79 I wrote my first book "Think On These Things".

Be generous, be humble, and be grateful when achieving your dreams.

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

My leadership began to take flight when I allowed myself to press people to change-whether they thanked me or cursed me.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

Our days are like identical suitcases. Even though they are all the same size, some people are able to pack more into them then others. The reason? They know what to pack.