Quotes from John C. Maxwell

As Napoleon said, victory belongs to the most persevering.

CHOOSE TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR HOW YOU VIEW YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES.

The Inner Voice: Vision starts within. Do you know your life's mission? What stirs your heart? What do you dream about? If what you're pursuing in life doesn't come from a desire within—from the very depths of who you are and what you believe—you will not be able to accomplish it.

Para ser eficaces, los líderes necesitan conectarse con la gente. Porque se debe llegar al corazón de la gente antes de pedirles una mano.

Leadership is influence.

Most people tend to underestimate the time it takes to achieve something of value, but to be successful, you have to be willing to pay your dues. James Watt spent twenty years laboring to perfect his steam engine. William Harvey labored night and day for eight years to prove how blood circulated in the human body. And it took another twenty-five years for the medical profession to acknowledge he was right.

I write books to influence people I will never meet. Books increase my audience and my message.

you have to experience a lot of failure to achieve success. And the more failure you go through, the higher your success. He

produce second-mile followers. If you go out of your way to care about others and help them, then they will go out of their way to help you when you ask them to.

Los estudios de la creatividad sugieren que la variable mayor de si los empleados serán creativos o no es si perciben que tienen permiso".

Howard Thurman: "No se pregunte lo que el mundo necesita. Pregúntese lo que hace que usted cobre vida y entonces hágalo. Porque lo que el mundo necesita son personas que cobren vida".

Sydney Harris sums up the elements of a teachable mind-set: "A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others. A loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.

El primer paso hacia el cambio es la conciencia. El segundo paso es la aceptación".

The main point is that it's the speaker's responsibility to bring energy to the audience and to work to activate them.

Motivation helps people who know what commitment they should make . . . to make it! • Motivation helps people who know what habit they should break . . . to break it! • Motivation helps people who know what path they should take . . . to take it!

Un fracasado es una persona que hace las cosas mal pero que no es capaz de sacar beneficio de la experiencia.. —ELBERT HUBBARD

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at

Focusing on the destination is not a good idea. Tomorrow may come; it may not. The only place we really have any power is in the present.

The purpose of life is not to win. The purpose of life is to grow and to share. When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasures you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.

If you can learn that, then no matter what happens to you, you can weather the storm and build on the good you find in any situation.

Self-discipline is a quality that is won through practice. Psychologist Joseph Mancusi noted, "Truly successful people have learned to do what does not come naturally. Real success lies in experiencing fear or aversion and acting in spite of it.

It's about attitude.

GIVE UP ON THE NOTION OF EVER ARRIVING AT PERFECTION.

VISION IS THE LIGHT THAT KEEPS YOU HEADED DOWN THE RIGHT PATH WHEN ALL THE WORLD AROUND YOU IS DARK.