John C. Maxwell
The whole idea of motivation is a trap, forget motivation, just do itCollection: Motivation
What you give to help others, builds them up enough that they are able to give to others. It's a cycle that can continue on long after you're dead and gone.Collection: Helping Others
Leaders never outgrow the need to change.Collection: Inspirational
The position does not make you a leader. The title, the promotion, the fancy corner office do not make you a leader. No, it is relationships with people that are the foundation, the very heart of leadership. Have you ever worked for someone you didn't like? It's difficult, isn't it? On the other hand, the leader you will follow anywhere and everywhere is one you know cares about you, and values you. This person has your best interests at heart. It is the leader who comes alongside to help you improve and grow.Collection: Heart
Openness by the leader paves the way for ownership by the people. Without ownership, changes will be short term. Changing people's habits and ways of thinking is like writing instructions in the snow during a snowstorm. Every twenty minutes the instructions must be rewritten, unless ownership is given along with instructions.Collection: Leadership
To Stay Focused in Life: You can't know everyone You can't do everything You can't go everywhere We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.Collection: Littles
Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.Collection: Leadership
Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership.Collection: Leadership
If churches would take ownership of a vision, the next pastor who is thinking about coming to that church can see what their vision is and then determine if their vision fits with his or her ministry. If it doesn't, then it would be wrong for that pastor to come to that church.Collection: Thinking
If you don't have the ability to see when to stand up and the conviction to do it, you'll never be an effective leader.Collection: Leader
Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.Collection: Inspirational
Teamwork gives you the best opportunity to turn vision into reality.Collection: Teamwork
A trustworthy leader goes the extra mile to remedy strained relationships, even when it doesn't appear to be required.Collection: Leader
Be generous, be humble, and be grateful when achieving your dreams.Collection: Leadership
When was the last time you did something for the first time?Collection: Service Culture
If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone.Collection: Inspirational
Set the tone for your day be treating people better than you expect to be treated by them. Be the first to smile. Express your appreciation for them. Expect the best out of them. If you act first, you will set yourself up for success.Collection: Motivational
Discontent with the status quo is a great catalyst for vision.Collection: Vision
Our days are like identical suitcases. Even though they are all the same size, some people are able to pack more into them then others. The reason? They know what to pack.Collection: Leadership
You cannot have growth without change.Collection: Growth
Making a difference in your work is not about productivity; it’s about people. When you focus on others and connect with them, you can work together to accomplish great things.Collection: Differences
If you are a leader, the true measure of your success is not getting people to work. It's not getting people to work hard. It is getting people to work hard together. That takes commitment.Collection: Hard Work
The higher you want to climb, the more you need leadership. The greater the impact you want to make, the greater your influence needs to be. Whatever you will accomplish is restricted by your ability to lead others.Collection: Wrestling
People are funny. When they are young, they will spend their health to get wealth. Later, they will gladly pay all they have trying to get their health back.Collection: People
But the law of magnetism really is true: who you are is who you attract.Collection: Leadership
Anyone who loves his opinions more than his teammates will advance his opinions but set back his team.Collection: Team
You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.Collection: Inspirational
Problems almost always create opportunities - to learn, grow and improve.Collection: Christian
Attitude: It is our best friend or our worst enemy.Collection: Attitude
Once a decision is made, you should stop worrying and start working. It’s not always what we know that makes it a good decision. It is what we do to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.Collection: Worry
Negative thinking blows everything out of proportion.Collection: Blow
Whenever I mentor people and help them discover their purpose, I always encourage them to start the process by discovering their strengths, not exploring their shortcomings. Why? Because people's purpose in life is always connected to their giftedness. It always works that way. You are not called to do something that you have no talent for. You will discover your purpose by finding and remaining in your strength zone.Collection: People
The dream is free...but the journey will cost you something.Collection: Dream
The greatest of all insights is that we cannot be tomorrow what we do not do today.Collection: Today
A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.Collection: Inspirational
The ability to understand people is one of the greatest assets anyone can ever have.Collection: People
The best leaders realize their success depends on their people.Collection: Leadership
The attitude of the leader affects the atmosphere of the officeCollection: Attitude
we need to make a few critical decisions in major areas of life and then manage those decisions day to day.Collection: Critical Decisions
Business schools reward complex behavior but it's the simple behavior that makes you successful in lifeCollection: School
Successful people...focus on the rewards of success: learning from their mistakes and thinking about how they can improve themselves and their situations.Collection: Mistake
God wants to be our partner throughout life. Too often we are tempted to either carry the entire load ourselves or give everything to God and do nothing. God doesn't like either strategy. Sometimes He moves before us and sometimes after us - but He doesn't move without us. Without God... we cannot. Without us... God will not.Collection: Moving
We have to pilot our own dreams - we cannot entrust them to anyone else.Collection: Dream
Any leader who asks the right questions of the right people has the potential to discover and develop great ideas.Collection: Ideas
Experiences isn't the best teacher - evaluated experience is.Collection: Teacher
I can't raise the bar of others if I haven't raised the bar for myself.Collection: Bars
Three reasons problems are inevitable; first, we live in a world of growing complexity and diversity; second, we interact with people; and third, we cannot control all the situation we face.Collection: People
Integrity is the human quality most necessary to business success.Collection: Integrity
You can change your life if you really want to. You can improve it, make it better. And it all starts with changing the way you think.Collection: Thinking