70 John C. Maxwell Quotes and Lessons on Successful Leadership

We need to decide how we want to be treated. Then we need to begin treating others in that manner.

One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.

Most people are more satisfied with old problems than committed to finding new solutions.

Dreams don’t work unless you do.

The reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

Leaders who attract followers. Need to be needed leaders who develop leaders. Want to be succeeded

Holding a grudge is never positive or appropriate.

If you combine your thoughts with the thoughts of others, you will come up with thoughts you’ve never had

Secrecy spawns isolation, not the success.

You cannot change your life until you change something you do every day.

As a leader, you will never get ahead until your people are behind you.

Never let the situation mean more than the relationship.

Nothing else has the same kind of impact on people's ability to achieve and to accomplish whatever their minds and hearts desire.

Good leaders know when to display emotions and when to delay them.

If you are a leader, the true measure of your success is not getting people to work. It’s not getting people to work hard. It is getting people to work hard together. That takes commitment.

The greatest enemy to tomorrow’s success is sometimes today’s success.

People who do not forgive are hurting themselves much more than they’re hurting others.

Leadership has less to do with position than it does disposition.

One of the great ironies of life is that if you give up your life, you gain it. If you help others, you benefit. If you lose yourself, you find yourself.

Winning teams have players who put the good of the team ahead of themselves. They want to play in their area of strength, but they’re willing to do what it takes to take care of the team. They are willing to sacrifice their role for the greater goal.