70 John C. Maxwell Quotes and Lessons on Successful Leadership

Failure isn't the failure if you do better the next time.

The truth is that leadership opportunities are plentiful and within reach of most people.

The measure of a great teacher isn’t what he or she knows; it’s what the students know.

You must be able to take the new thing you’ve learned today and build upon what you learned yesterday to keep growing.

Believing in the cause creates your conviction. Believing in your vision fuels your inspiration. Believing in your people builds your motivation.

A team is a group of people who may not be equal in experience, talent, or education but in commitment.

Every successful person is someone who failed, yet never regarded himself as a failure.

Leading with a lack of integrity is choosing to fail before taking your first step.

People don’t really know whether they are committed to something until they face adversity.

Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.

Players must accept the cards dealt to them. However, once they have those cards in hand, they alone choose how they will play them. They decide what risks and actions to take.

Growth inside fuels growth outside.

When you develop confidence, those around you friends, family, and associates will increase in their own confidence levels. Confidence breeds confidence.

If you want people to remember what you say, you need to say the right thing at the right moment in the right way.

If you tend to focus on the particular events in your life, try to put things into perspective.

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.

A forgiving spirit is the one basic, necessary ingredient for a solid relationship.

The rewards leaders give are counterbalanced by the results that their people give in return.

You have to experience a lot of failures to achieve success. And the more failure you go through, the higher your success.

The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You’ve got to keep working that talent.