70 John C. Maxwell Quotes and Lessons on Successful Leadership

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge.

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.

Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.

One of the reasons that problem-solving is so difficult is that we are often too close to the problems to truly understand them.

If you’re going to connect, people need to know that you understand them.

The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.

All true leaders have learned to say no to the good in order to say yes to the best.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

When it comes to identifying a real leader, that task can be much easier. Don't listen to the claims of the person professing to be the leader. Don't examine his credentials. Don't check his title. Check his influence. The proof of leadership is found in the followers.

A dream is an inspiring picture of the future that energizes your mind, will, and emotions, empowering you to do everything you can to achieve it.

Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.

Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right.

Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life.

The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.

If people paid their dues and gave their best in obscurity, ego is usually not a problem.

If you don't have influence, you will never be able to lead others.

One of the paradoxes of life is that the things that initially make you successful are rarely the things that keep you successful.

Charismatic people not only want to win, they want others to win too. That creates productivity.

The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything.

People need clear objectives set before them if they are to achieve anything of value.