70 John C. Maxwell Quotes and Lessons on Successful Leadership

Leaders who are effective are leaders who are disciplined in their daily lives

Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.

The dream is an inspiring picture of the future that energizes your mind, will, and emotions, empowering you to do everything you can to achieve it.

Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.

Everyone is a leader because everyone influences someone.

A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large extent, by your habits.

The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others – not yourself – first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification.

Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success.

The image is what people think we are; integrity is what we really are.

You can’t build a relationship with everybody in the room when you don’t care about anybody in the room.

People don’t remember what we think is important; they remember what they think is important.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.

Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.

Live to learn and you will really learn to live.

The best way to develop rational, well-balanced confidence is to go after a few victories immediately following a failure.

Each day is an unrepeatable miracle. Today will never happen again, so we must make it count.

Your values are the soul of your leadership, and they drive your behavior.

Listen twice as much as you speak.

Nothing's work unless you'd rather be doing something else.