Top 100 John Maxwell Quotes
#1. As John Maxwell has written, "You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything."9
Greg McKeown
#2. A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others.
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John C. Maxwell
#3. John Maxwell...Izzy Lewis revised:
"The single GREATEST difference between GROWING PEOPLE and those that DON'T GROW is THE BELIEF that they CAN LEARN, GROW, AND CHANGE.
Izzy Lewis
#4. John Maxwell says a budget (for your money) is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went. Managing time is the same; you will either tell your day what to do or you will wonder where it went.
Dave Ramsey
#6. I can afford to take a risk in my life. Only the insecure cannot afford to risk failure. The secure can be honest about themselves. They can admit failure. They are able to seek help and try again. They can change
John C. Maxwell
#7. Successful people do what is right no matter how they feel, and by doing right, they feel good.
John C. Maxwell
#8. What you are going to be tomorrow, you are becoming today.
John C. Maxwell
#10. Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.
John C. Maxwell
#11. You can't build a relationship with everybody in the room when you don't care about anybody in the room.
John C. Maxwell
#12. Successful people make right decisions early and manage those decisions daily.
John C. Maxwell
#13. We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to the process.
John C. Maxwell
#14. By talking others out of their dreams, critical people excuse themselves for staying in their comfort zones.
John C. Maxwell
#16. Out of what I had received in my development, I was also able to give. The confidence I gained from personal growth gave me credibility and made me believe I could start developing others. And in that, I found life's greatest joy and reward.
John C. Maxwell
#17. The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.
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#18. Each day is an unrepeatable miracle. Today will never happen again, so we must make it count.
John C. Maxwell
#19. I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.
John C. Maxwell
#20. Nothing speaks like results. If you want to build the kind of credibility that connects with people, then deliver results before you deliver a message. Get out and do what you advise others to do. Communicate from experience.
John C. Maxwell
#21. Most accomplishments in life come more easily if you approach them strategically
John C. Maxwell
#22. Discernment can be described as the ability to find the root of the matter, and it relies on intuition as well as rational thought.
John C. Maxwell
#23. We are to get wisdom and understanding, yet we are not to lean on it apart from the Lord.
John C. Maxwell
#24. People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
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#25. In my experience, followers always ask leaders 3 questions: 1) Do you care 4 me? 2) Can you help me? 3) Can I trust you?
John C. Maxwell
#26. A Chinese proverb says, "Those who drink the water must remember those who dug the well." Gratitude is one of the most attractive of all personal attributes;
John C. Maxwell
#27. TALENT PROVIDES HOPE FOR ACCOMPLISHMENT, BUT PERSEVERANCE GUARANTEES IT.
John C. Maxwell
#28. Practice the 101 Percent Principle. Whenever possible, find the 1 percent you do agree on in a difficult situation, and give it 100 percent of your effort.
John C. Maxwell
#29. The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.
John C. Maxwell
#30. You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.
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#31. When you make a commitment, you create hope. When you keep a commitment you create trust!
John C. Maxwell
#33. THE LAW OF THE CHAIN The Strength of the Team Is Impacted by Its Weakest Link
John C. Maxwell
#34. To really become motivated to succeed, people need to believe they can win.
John C. Maxwell
#35. Success is choosing to enter the arena of action, determined to give yourself to the cause that will better humanity and last for eternity.
John C. Maxwell
#36. The company owner doesn't need to win. The best idea does.
John C. Maxwell
#37. Nothing is more difficult to accomplish than changing outward actions without changing inward feelings.
John C. Maxwell
#38. Effective leaders don't gather things just for themselves; they do it in order to give to others.
John C. Maxwell
#39. Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.
John C. Maxwell
#40. Every sailor knows that you can't sail a ship that isn't moving forward, strong leaders understand that to change direction, you first have to create forward progress.
John C. Maxwell
#41. Our attitude is the primary force that will determine whether we succeed or fail.
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#42. Success each day should be judged by the seeds sown, not the harvest reaped.
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#43. We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.
John C. Maxwell
#44. How does a person become productive? Find your strength and then find someone who needs your strength.
John C. Maxwell
#45. As negative thoughts produce negative actions, so positive thoughts produce positive actions.
John C. Maxwell
#46. Your life expands in proportion to your courage. Fear limits a leader.
John C. Maxwell
#47. Wanting to win isn't enough. You have to go through a process to improve. That takes patience, perseverance, and intentionality.
John C. Maxwell
#48. A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large extent, by your habits.
John C. Maxwell
#49. Often people fail to start or complete a task because they don't see any connection between what they're doing and what they really want to accomplish in life.
John C. Maxwell
#50. Leaders don't rise to the pinnacle of success without developing the right set of attitudes and habits; they make every day a masterpiece.
John C. Maxwell
#51. Transmit your vision emotionally by gaining credibility, demonstrating passion, establishing relationships and communicating a felt need. Transmit it logically by confronting reality, formulating strategy, accepting responsibility, celebrating victory and learning from defeat.
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#52. Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. Leaders who are good navigators are capable of taking their people just about anywhere.
John C. Maxwell
#53. Leadership is more disposition than position - influence others from wherever you are.
John C. Maxwell
#54. Profile of a winning team - They play to win. They have a winning attitude. They keep improving. They make their teammates more successful.
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#55. What you give to help others, builds them up enough that they are able to give to others. It's a cycle that can continue on long after you're dead and gone.
John C. Maxwell
#56. We tend to get in life what we are willing to tolerate.
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#57. The average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business.
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#59. The greatest of all insights is that we cannot be tomorrow what we do not do today.
John C. Maxwell
#62. Problems are not my problem. It's not what happens to me but what happens in me that matters.
John C. Maxwell
#63. Smart leaders believe only half of what they
hear. Discerning leaders know which have
to believe.
John C. Maxwell
#64. One of the reasons people don't achieve their dreams is that they desire to change their results without changing their thinking.
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#65. I state in my book Put Your Dream to the Test that the more valid reasons a person has to achieve their dream, the higher the odds are that they will. Valid reasons also increase the odds that a person will follow through with personal growth.
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#66. If you combine your thoughts with the thoughts of others, you will come up with thoughts you've never had!
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#67. Many people help construct our attitudes at a certain time and place.
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#68. Personal and organizational effectiveness is proportionate to the strength of leadership.
John C. Maxwell
#70. Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it's almost always due to personal growth.
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#71. Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.
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#72. Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.
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#73. Perhaps our greatest power in life is the power to choose. Without question, choices are the most determining factor in how our lives turn out.
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#74. If you can become the leader you ought to be on the inside, you will be able to become the person you want on the outside. People will want to follow you. And when that happens, you'll be able to tackle anything in this world.
John C. Maxwell
#76. Confront your inadequacies and push your personal boundaries: It's the surest way to grow, improve and expand the scope of your influence.
John C. Maxwell
#77. The ultimate step in taking responsibility is making sure our actions line up with our words.
John C. Maxwell
#78. The goal of the pastor is not to get people to show up but to get people to grow up.
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#79. Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others.
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#80. There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn't.
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#82. Praise them for what they do well, both privately and publicly.
John C. Maxwell
#84. SUCCESS is when I add value to MYSELF. SIGNIFICANCE is when I add value to OTHERS.
John C. Maxwell
#85. When we practice sacred sexuality we are working with cosmologically rooted principles, balancing the heavenly yang (male energy) of the universe with the all-knowing, life-giving yin (feminine energy) of the earth within ourselves.
John Maxwell Taylor
#86. I believe that everyone chooses how to approach life. If you're proactive, you focus on preparing. If you're reactive, you end up focusing on repairing.
John C. Maxwell
#87. The ability to connect with others begins with understanding the value of people.
John C. Maxwell
#88. God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.
John C. Maxwell
#89. Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.
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#90. The best way to serve the individuals on the team is to see that the whole team wins.
John C. Maxwell
#91. Making a difference in your work is not about productivity; it's about people. When you focus on others and connect with them, you can work together to accomplish great things.
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#92. Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership.
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#93. If you want to reach the top, don't run over others. Likely, the only way you'll reach the top is to be carried there by others.
John C. Maxwell
#94. People don't really know whether they are committed to something until they face adversity.
John C. Maxwell
#95. Personnel determines the potential of the team. Vision determines the direction of the team. Work ethic determines the preparation of the team. Leadership determines the success of the team.
John C. Maxwell
#96. If people around you don't believe in you, if they don't encourage you, then you need to find some people who do.
John C. Maxwell
#97. Good ideas must be shared, improved upon with the help of other good thinkers, and then they must be implemented and acted upon.
John C. Maxwell
#98. Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.
John C. Maxwell
#99. There is a supernal intelligence behind sexual arousal, the true purpose of which is to create for us ecstatic experiences of our own divinity.
John Maxwell Taylor
#100. You can't take the team to the next level when you haven't mastered the skills it takes to succeed on a personal level.
John C. Maxwell
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