70 John C. Maxwell Quotes and Lessons on Successful Leadership

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

People cannot perform in a way inconsistent with the way they see themselves.

Leadership is influence.

Leaders are effective because of who they are on the inside—in the qualities that make them up as people. And to go to the highest level of leadership, people have to develop these traits from the inside out.

Successful leaders have the courage to take action while others hesitate.

It's not the position that makes the leader; it's the leader that makes the position.

Once our minds are “tattooed” with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.

The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him but the number of people he serves.

If everyone doesn’t pay the price to win, then everyone will pay the price by losing.

True success comes only when every generation continues to develop the next generation.

People don’t learn from people they don’t value.

Most people have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with god to know how to solve them.

You lose the respect of the best when you don’t deal properly with the worst.

The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying.

If you can't influence people, then they will not follow you. And if people won't follow, you are not a leader. That's the Law of Influence.

The only way to change how you view life is to change who you are on the inside.

The goal of confrontation should be to help, not to humiliate.

The strength of the team Is Impacted by Its Weakest Link