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"51 John C. Maxwell Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 20 February 1947 | Clergyman | Author |

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

Agenda Secret Success Daily
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“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care”

People Care Know Until
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“A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose, a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.”

Holds Purpose Cause Pursue
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“Growth inside fuels growth outside.”

Growth Inside Fuels Growth
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“You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.”

Bigger Smaller Making Challenges
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“If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.”

Success Already Even Show
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Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.

Change Growth Optional Inevitable
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“The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.”

MIstake Living Fear Constant
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“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”

About Titles Flowchart Life
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“Doing the right thing daily, compounds over time.”

Doing Right Thing Compounds
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“If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone.”
Comfort Growing Always Outside
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“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.”
Leader Adjustment Optimist Complains
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“Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.”

Life Happens How React
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“Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.”

Talent Gift Choice Character
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“Learn to say ‘no’ to the good so you can say ‘yes’ to the best.”

Learn Good Yes Best
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“We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.”

Become What Remaining Need
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“Failing forward” is the ability to get back up after you’ve been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.”

Knocked Down Mistake Move
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“Success is…knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.”

LIfe Growing Potential Benefit
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“The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.”

Seriously Growth More People
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“Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.”

Desire Expectation Instead Exceptional
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“Speak the truth. Transparency breeds legitimacy.”

Speak Truth Breeds Transparency
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“Make a point to continually search for a better way of doing things, even when things are going well, to ensure that a better alternative has not been overlooked and to keep your creative talents in practice.”

Alternative Overlook Practice Talents
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“Creative leaders inherently know when rules need to be challenged, and they can see when a more flexible approach should be taken.”

Challenge Flexible Approach Taken
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“Although it’s admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it’s more desirable to be smart-working.”

Desirable Hard-working Admirable Smart-working
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“A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.”

Great Leader Courage Vision
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“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.”

Man Big Mistake Strong
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“Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success.”

Happiness Simple Success Measure
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“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.”

Connection Doing Accomplish Life
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“You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.”

Unimportance Overestimate Pratically Everything
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“Leaders don’t rise to the pinnacle of success without developing the right set of attitudes and habits; they make every day a masterpiece.”

Leaders Attitude Pinnacle Everthing
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“Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all.”

Achievement Top Remaining Spectacular
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“You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.”

Choose Trust Other Honor
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“Earn the right to be heard by listening to others. Seek to understand a situation before making judgments about it.”

Seek Situation Judgment Understand
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Leaders never outgrow the need to change.

Leaders Never Change Outgrow
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“If you don’t have peace, it isn’t because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.”

Peace Cannot Control Happens
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“Plan and execute your first failure so that you no longer have to fear it.”

Plan Execute Longer Failure
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“The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying”

Only The Guaratnee Failure
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“The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.”

When Responsibility Attitudes Grow
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“Stay focused instead of getting offended or off track by others.”

Focus Offended Track Others
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“To add value to others, one must first value others.”

Add Value Must Others
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“Doing the wrong thing daily, compounds over time.”

Wrong Thing Compounds TIme
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“There are two paths people can take. They can either play now and pay later, or pay now and play later. Regardless of the choice, one thing is certain. Life will demand a payment.”

REgardless Choice Payment Certain
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“The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.”

People Achieving Perception Response
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“As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.”

Behavior Many People Feel
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“It’s true that charisma can make a person stand out for a moment, but character sets a person apart for a lifetime.”

Lifetime Moment Character Apart
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“Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life.”

Desicion Life Begins Rest
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“If you don’t change the direction you are going, then you’re likely to end up where you’re heading…”

Direction Change LIkely Heading
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“People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.”

People Words Feel Attitude
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“The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.”

Distaste Stunts Growth Limits
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Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.”

Distaste Stunts Growth Limits
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John C. Maxwell Quotes & Sayings