70 John C. Maxwell Quotes and Lessons on Successful Leadership

A leader who produces other leaders multiples their influences.

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Successful people focus their thinking on progress.

Too many people, when they make a mistake, just keep stubbornly plowing ahead and end up repeating the same mistakes.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others. A loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.

People who make growth their goal—instead of a title, position, salary, or another external target—always have a future.

The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.

You never really know something until you teach it to someone else.

Productive leaders communicate the superiority and the benefits of their ideas.

What people remember most is how you make them feel.

When you find yourself, you find your audience.

Have to slow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must start with showing excellent thoughts.

Good attitudes among players do not guarantee a team’s success, but bad attitudes guarantee its failure.

You must do right before you feel good.

There are really only three kinds of people. Those who don’t succeed, those who achieve success temporarily, and those who become and remain successful. The character is the only way to sustain success.

Sometimes you win. Sometimes you learn.