70 John C. Maxwell Quotes and Lessons on Successful Leadership

You cannot harvest life’s rewards without first planting seeds.

Experience alone isn’t a good enough teacher – evaluated experience is.

You’re more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.

The closest to perfection people ever come is when they write their resumes.

Life’s greatest rewards come from your inner self, from the choices you make, from how you decide to live under whatever circumstances you find yourself

The number-one reason most people lose arguments is not because they’re wrong; it’s because they don’t know when to quit.

Leaders stretch with challenges. Followers struggle with challenges. Losers shrink from challenges.

Many people have produced great results who were not qualified.

The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it.

When leaders learn and live good values, they make themselves more valuable and lift the value of other people. That is the foundation of positive leadership.

Your ultimate goal as a leader should be to work hard enough and strategically enough that you have more than enough to give and share with others.

People need to know that you have high expectation of them.

If the reaction is worse than the action, the problem usually increases. If the reaction is less than the action, the problem usually decreases.

The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth.

Words are the currency of ideas and have the power to change the world.

Great leaders always seem to embody two seemingly disparate qualities. They are both highly visionary and highly practical.

Learning to write is learning to think. You don’t know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

The right thought plus the right people in the right environment at the right time for the right reason = the right result

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.