John C. Maxwell
Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.Collection: Knowledge
Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.Collection: Time
A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.Collection: Change
Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, 'It's a Wonderful Life' tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.Collection: Christmas
Most people don't like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.Collection: Good
Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.Collection: Attitude
The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.Collection: Dreams
If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous - is changed by it.Collection: Famous
Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.Collection: Happiness
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.Collection: Leadership
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.Collection: Great
Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.Collection: Dreams
There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.Collection: Good
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.Collection: Wisdom
Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.Collection: Diet
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.Collection: Attitude
Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.Collection: Work
I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one.Collection: Leadership
Without failure there is no achievement.Collection: Failure
People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.Collection: Attitude
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.Collection: Failure
Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.Collection: Life
Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.Collection: Change
When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it's as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.Collection: Dreams
The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.Collection: Best
For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted.Collection: Christmas
In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.Collection: Brainy
As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.Collection: Time
Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable.Collection: Money
The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.Collection: Best
Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.Collection: Change
Everything rises and falls on leadership.Collection: Leadership
Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.Collection: Best
Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.Collection: Alone
The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.Collection: Learning
The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.Collection: Success
Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it's almost always due to personal growth.Collection: Great
Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.Collection: Success
As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.Collection: Change
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.Collection: Leadership
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.Collection: Leadership
Leadership is influence.Collection: Leadership
Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.
To add value to others, one must first value others.
Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.
Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.
One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.
Have the humility to learn from those around you.
People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.
Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.