“How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life (Maxwell, John C.) - Your Highlight on page x | Location 32-32 | Added on Wednesday, September 3, 2014 8:56:47 PM 2. Changed Thinking Is Difficult”
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John C. Maxwell
“Few things will pay you bigger dividends in life than the time and trouble you take to understand people and build relationships
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John C. Maxwell
“The younger you are, the more likely you will give your attention to many things. That’s good because if you’re young you’re still getting to know yourself, your strengths and weaknesses. If you focus your thinking on only one thing and your aspirations change, then you’ve wasted your best mental energy. As you get older and more experienced, the need to focus becomes more critical. The farther and higher you go, the more focused you can be—and need to be.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Experience isn’t the best teacher—evaluated experience is.”
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John C. Maxwell
“The beauty of trust is that it erases worry and frees you to get on with other matters. Trust means confidence.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
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John C. Maxwell
“It's good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don't step out of your gift zone.”
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John C. Maxwell
“There is no life as empty as the self-centered life. There is no life as centered as the self-empty life.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Everyone is a leader because everyone influences someone.”
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John C. Maxwell
“He who thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”
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John C. Maxwell
“people don’t function like machines. They have feelings. They think. They have problems, hopes, and dreams. Though people can be managed, they would much rather be led. And when they are led, they perform at a much higher level.”
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John C. Maxwell
“Your values are the soul of your leadership, and they drive your behavior.”
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John C. Maxwell
