70 John C. Maxwell Quotes and Lessons on Successful Leadership

If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn't show yet.

Value people. Praise effort. Reward performance.

We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.

Successful people make right decisions early and manage those decisions daily.

The reality is that you will never get much done unless you go ahead and do it before you are ready.

Humility is not denying your strengths. Humility is being honest about your weaknesses. All of us are a bundle of both great strengths and great weaknesses and humility are being able, to be honest about both.

Those who lack humility are dogmatic and egotistical. That masks a deep sense of insecurity.

You can have reasons or results. You can’t have both.

If you want to win over another person, first win his heart, and the rest of him is likely to follow.

Good Thinking Produces More Good Thinking.

Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them day after day.

The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.

Connecting has a lot to do with letting who you are influence everything you do.

A leader with great passion and few skills always outperforms a leader with great skills and no passion.

A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential.

If you’re not working at your game to the utmost of your ability, there will be someone out there somewhere with equal ability. And one day you’ll play each other, and he’ll have the advantage.

You cannot enjoy others until you enjoy yourself because you cannot give to others what you do not have.

Nobody wants to be sold, but everyone wants to be helped.

It doesn’t matter what job you do or what position you obtain; you will have limits. That’s just the way life is.

Most good leaders want the perspective of people they trust.