“God uses people who fail—'cause there aren't any other kind around.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change what I see within me.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“No one can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“Crisis doesn’t necessarily make character, but it certainly does reveal it. Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“If you are to become more sensitive, you must be willing to take a risk. Take the initiative to find a need and take action.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“Remember that success is just 15 percent product knowledge and it’s 85 percent people knowledge.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“Even the choicest words lose their power when they are used to overpower.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“You can’t build a relationship with everybody in the room when you don’t care about anybody in the room.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“Your values are the soul of your leadership, and they drive your behavior.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“If I wanted to make a difference… Wishing for things to change wouldn’t make them change. Hoping for improvements wouldn’t bring them. Dreaming wouldn’t provide all the answers I needed. Vision wouldn’t be enough to bring transformation to me or others. Only by managing my thinking and shifting my thoughts from desire to deeds would I be able to bring about positive change. I needed to go from wanting to doing.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“Comparing yourself to others is really just a needless distraction. The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday. You do that by focusing on what you can do today to improve and grow.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“The ability to connect with others begins with understanding the value of people.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“Thomas Jefferson said, “It’s wonderful how much can be done if we are always working.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“V. Gilbert Beers says, “A person of integrity is one who has established a system of values against which all of life is judged.” Integrity is not what we do so much as who we are. And who we are, in turn, determines what we do.
―
John C. Maxwell
“First, when we are busy, we naturally believe that we are achieving. But busyness does not equal productivity. Activity is not necessarily accomplishment. Second, prioritizing requires leaders to continually think ahead, to know what's important, to know what's next, to see how everything relates to the overall vision. That's hard work. Third, prioritizing causes us to do things that are at the least uncomfortable and sometimes downright painful.”
―
John C. Maxwell
