70 John C. Maxwell Quotes and Lessons on Successful Leadership

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

Opportunity is in the eye of the beholder.

When people respect you as a person, they admire you. When they respect you as a friend, they love you. When they respect you as a leader, they follow you.

To achieve any worthy goal, you must take risks.

Success is more important to you than your success

Your thinking, more than anything else, shapes the way you live. It’s really true that if you change your thinking, you can change your life.

Success consists of a series of little daily victories.

People with humility don’t think less of themselves; they just think of themselves less.

A sign of a great team leader is the proper placement of people.

You need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

The challenges escalate, the need for teamwork elevates.

Our problems are no longer problems when we seek to learn instead of leisure.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Discover your uniqueness; then discipline yourself to develop it.

Improvement is impossible without change.

Maturity doesn’t come with age. It begins with the acceptance of responsibility.

A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

Great vision precedes great achievement.

Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business.

When you don’t want to change, you look for differences in others. When you are willing to change, you look for similarities.