Quotes from John C. Maxwell

By talking others out of their dreams, critical people excuse themselves for staying in their comfort zones.

Los verdaderos líderes conocen la diferencia entre posición e influencia. Esa es la diferencia entre ser un jefe y ser un líder

First speech? Frightened beyond belief. First board meeting? Scared stiff. I was never good the first time, and I was always scared on top of that.

If you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain. Criticizing and censuring almost everyone you have to do with, will diminish friends, increase enemies, and hereby hurt you affairs.

Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right.

You can't complain and get ahead at the same time.

As long as you are hanging around amateurs, you will think like an amateur, and you will not improve your skills.

It's improper for one person to take credit when it takes so many people to build a successful organization.

A dream is an inspiring picture of the future that energizes your mind, will, and emotions, empowering you to do everything you can to achieve it.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt asserted, "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." Don't let your doubts cause your expector to expire.

The one thing you need to know about teamwork is that there is more than one thing you need to know about teamwork.

The first definition of planning that I ever learned was this: planning is predetermining tomorrow's results today.

Los líderes con éxito son aprendices. Y el proceso del aprendizaje es un continuo resultado de la autodisciplina y la perseverancia.

Lo que usted es, es lo que usted atrae". Eso es cierto

I will never surrender to discouragement or despair no matter what seeming obstacles may confront me.

limit the effect of any emotional high or low to the twenty-four-hour period that follows the occurrence.

There is definitely a correlation between family success and personal success. Not only does building a strong family lay the groundwork for future success, but it also gives life deeper meaning.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.

FOCUS LESS ON YOUR FEAR AND MORE ON YOUR DREAMS

poet Edwin Markham wrote, There is a destiny that makes us brothers None goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own.

Behavior that is rewarded is behavior that will continue.

To sharpen your talent through practice, you need to do more than just be open to change. You need to pursue change—and you need to do it a little bit more than other achievers.

Leaders are effective because of who they are on the inside—in the qualities that make them up as people. And to go to the highest level of leadership, people have to develop these traits from the inside out.

Cualquiera puede comenzar, pero solamente alguien de buena estirpe puede terminar.