John C. Maxwell
Integrity is important in building relationships. And is the foundation upon which many other qualities for success are built, such as respect, dignity, and trust.Collection: Integrity
Delegate - work smarter not harder; do what you do best and drop the rest; get control of your calendar; do what you love because it will give you energy; work with people you like so your energy isn't depleted.Collection: Love Is
Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. Don't ever underestimate the power of planning. You can't make your vision come to life unless you outline each goal-driven step at a time. And you can't reach your full potential unless you plan how to make the most of your purpose and passion. When you look around and see people who are the captains of their ship, invariably they have taken pains to chart their successful course through life.Collection: Pain
Good attitudes among players do not guarantee a team's success, but bad attitudes guarantee it's failure.Collection: Teamwork
If your desire is a 10 but your self-esteem is a 5, you'll never perform at the level of a 10. You'll perform as a 5 or lower. People are ever able to outperform their self-image.Collection: Self Esteem
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win but think you can't it's almost certain you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can. A happy person is not a person with a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me.Collection: Attitude
Leadership is the readiness to stand out in a crowd.Collection: Leadership
Be a river - not a reservoir.Collection: Rivers
As a leader, you will never get ahead until your people are behind you.Collection: Leadership
Nothing is as hard as it looks; everything is more rewarding than you expect; and if anything can go right it will and at the best possible moment.Collection: Looks
Seek advice, but make sure it's from someone who has successfully handled mistakes or adversities.Collection: Leadership
The strength of any organization is a direct result of the strength of its leaders.Collection: Organization
Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.Collection: Inspirational
If your a leader, do everything you can to grow yourself and create the right environment for others to grow.Collection: Leader
Leaders need to remember that the point of leading is not to cross the finish line first. It's to take people across the finish line with you. For that reason, leaders must deliberately slow their pace, stay connected to their people, enlist others to help fulfill the vision, and keep people going. You can't do that if you're running too far ahead of your people.Collection: Motivational
What most people really want is to be listened to, respected, and understood.Collection: People
Without a vision people and the church become self-centered. People start finding fault with one another and the church self-destructs.Collection: Self
Often people fail to start or complete a task because they don't see any connection between what they're doing and what they really want to accomplish in life.Collection: Inspirational
God doesn't move until we move first.Collection: Moving
Commitment comes as a result of choice, not conditions.Collection: Commitment
If you want to be positive, upbeat, and passionate, you need to take responsibility for being that way.Collection: Leadership
Have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must start with sowing excellent thoughts.Collection: Success
Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.Collection: Book
People will work eight hours a day for pay, 10 hours a day for a good boss, and 24 hours a day for a good cause!Collection: Motivation
As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.Collection: Inspirational
The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.Collection: Struggle
People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances. If they make enough good choices, they begin to create better conditions for themselves.Collection: Character
It is hard to feel bad about yourself when you are doing something good for someone else. There are a lot of ways to lift your self-esteem, but making a positive difference in another's life has got to be my best leadership guidance. Serving others and working to add value to them will lift your spirits in a way that nothing else will. Trust me on this one.Collection: Leadership
What you are going to be tomorrow, you are becoming today.Collection: Today
A person sometimes can't make a decision unless they know what decision to make.Collection: Decision
You cannot enjoy others until you enjoy yourself because you cannot give to others what you do not have.Collection: Giving
Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.Collection: Hard Work
In most cases, those who want power probably shouldn't have it, those who enjoy it probably do so for the wrong reasons, and those who want most to hold on to it don't understand that it's only temporary.Collection: Want
Finish every day and be done with it.Collection: Leadership
Effective leaders sacrifice much that is good in order to dedicate themselves to what is bestCollection: Sacrifice
Your attitude is like the minds paintbrush. It can paint everything in bright, vibrant colors-creating a masterspiece.Collection: Attitude
What I did in the book [Today Matters] is I tried to help a person make their day - every day - their masterpiece.Collection: Book
Failure is not a one-time event; it's how you deal with life along the way. Until you breathe your last breath, you're still in the process, and there is still time to turn things around for the better.Collection: Leadership
Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized that they couldn't determine every circumstance in life but they could determine their choice of attitude towards every circumstance.Collection: Attitude
The only adequate preparation for tomorrow is the right use of today.Collection: Preparation
You must develop yourself to be successfulCollection: Successful
Growth inside fuels growth outside.Collection: Inspirational
Creativity requires the willingness to look stupid.Collection: Leadership
If you have great people around you, they will take you higher than your dream will. Leaders are never self-made. Those closest to you determine your level of success, so choosing the right companions as partners in pursuit of your vision is an important decision. My advice is to surround yourself with talented people who will challenge you, help you grow and inspire you to maximize your potential.Collection: Dream
Behind every great idea is someone saying "It won't work"Collection: Ideas
Be the most enthusiastic person you know.Collection: Stay Positive
You can't build a relationship with everybody in the room when you don't care about anybody in the room.Collection: Rooms
To help [people] understand that what you shortcut today, cannot be made up tomorrow. So it's like, I'm not going to do anything today, and I'm going to do the wrong thing today and somehow tomorrow it will get a lot better."Collection: People