70 John C. Maxwell Quotes and Lessons on Successful Leadership

Every message that people receive is filtered through the messenger who delivers it.

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess.

Leadership is a moving target, and it always will be. If you desire to become a better leader, get comfortable with change. And if you want to lead up, learn to think like a leader. Think people, think progress, and think intangibles.

Only secure leaders exhibit servanthood.

If at first, you do succeed, try Something Harder

We need to make a few critical decisions in major areas of life and then manage those decisions day to day.

Life is a series of outcomes. Sometimes the outcome is what you want. Great. Figure out what you did right. Sometimes the outcome is what you don't want. Great. Figure out what you did so you don't do it again.

Effective teams have teammates who are constantly talking to one another.

When you work together with your teammates, you can do remarkable things. If you work alone, you leave a lot of victories on the table.

A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself.

People are never able to outperform their self-image.

As a leader, you should not be trying to carry everything yourself. To be successful, you must share the load. But you must have highly capable people to hand things off to.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

If you don’t win, it makes for a very, very long season. It counts more that the team has played well.

Influencing others is a matter of disposition, not position.

People say there are two great days in a person’s life: the day you were born and the day you discover.

You cannot grow unless you are willing to change. And you will not change unless you change something you do every day.

There is no life as empty as the self-centered life. There is no life as centered as the self-empty life.

Success comes options. How we use those options reveals our character.

A person who has a dream knows what he is willing to give up in order to go up.