If you don’t try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
When pastors ask me if their people will buy this vision, I ask them two questions: "Have they bought into your leadership?"… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
People rise and fall to meet your level of expectations for them. If you express skepticism and doubt in others, they will… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I wish I could say I coined the phrase "failing forward." I do it all the time. I find as I've embraced… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
We cannot choose how many years we will live, but we can choose how much life those years will have. We cannot… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Most people would rather change their circumstances to improve their lives when instead they need to change themselves to improve their circumstances.… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
People who are not leaders automatically gravitate toward lines--limitations set by others. Many people are taught this in kindergarten when they are… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I felt the hand and the call of God in my life that I would be doing ministry and trying to serve… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
One way to overcome our natural self-centeredness is to try to see things from other people's perspectives. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I can afford to take a risk in my life. Only the insecure cannot afford to risk failure. The secure can be… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The harder you try to forget something, the more you think about it subconsciously. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Changing your attitude from self-centerdness to understanding requires desire and commitment to always try to see things from the other persons point… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
For the person trying to do everything alone, the game really is over. If you want to do something big, you must… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The first order of things to be changed is me, the leader. After I consider how hard it is to change myself,… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I always try to remember that I am a work in progress. It is life's journey that matters and the turns I… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Those who profit from adversity possess a spirit of humility and are therefore inclined to make the necessary changes needed to learn… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
To be an influencer, you have to love people before you can try to lead them. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
When it comes to money, you can't win. If you focus on making it, you're materialistic. If you try to but don't… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
People are funny. When they are young, they will spend their health to get wealth. Later, they will gladly pay all they… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The highest reward for our toil is not what we get for it but what we become by it. ... Mistakes are… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Why do so many people do nothing? I think it’s because most of us look at the evils and injustice around us, and we… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Goals not only help you develop initial motivation by making your dreams obtainable, but they also help you continue to be motivated and that… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Vision is a picture of a desired future; a picture of something that I don't possess right now, but it is something I want… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
If you want to make your mother happy, talk to her. If you want to make your father happy, listen. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Passion gives you an advantage over others, because one person with passion is greater than ninety-nine who have only an interest! — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I thought if I was open and honest, it would help the reader to get open and honest, and they also would realize sometimes… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
A person who has a dream knows what he is willing to give up in order to go up. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The bottom line on attitude is that a good one helps to increase your possibilities. Pessimists usually get what they expect. So do optimists. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
