John C. Maxwell
Nurturing has the ability to transform people's lives.Collection: People
The size of your miracle depends on the size of your problem.Collection: Miracle
When you nurture people and add value to them without expecting anything in return, they feel significant.Collection: People
Leaders provide for their people what the people cannot provide for themselves.Collection: People
The real test of leadership isn't where you start out. It's where you end up.Collection: Leadership
When a leader reaches out in passion, he is usually met with an answering passion.Collection: Passion
Adversity is an opportunity for self-discovery.Collection: Adversity
The more intentional you are about your leadership growth, the greater your potential for becoming the leader you're capable of being. Never stop learning.Collection: Motivational
Your teammates will stretch your vision or choke your dream.Collection: Dream
Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking.Collection: Thinking
The unexamined leader is not worth following.Collection: Leader
If I expect great things from my people, they'll go to great lengths to keep from disappointing me.Collection: People
There is a world of difference between a person who has a big problem and a person who makes a problem big.Collection: Attitude
Integrity is the factor that determines which one will prevail. We struggle daily with situations that demand decisions between what we want to do and what we ought to do. Integrity establishes the ground rules for resolving these tensions. it determines who we are and how we will respond before the conflict even appears. Integrity welds what we say, think, and do, into a whole person so that permission is never granted for one of these to be out of sync.Collection: Integrity
Others are Ahead of me. I am continually Challenged. My focus is Forward. The atmosphere is Affirming. I am often out of my Comfort Zone. I wake up Excited. Failure is not my Enemy. Others are Growing. People desire Change. Growth is Modeled and Expected.Collection: People
The church that will not give up will be outdated and passed by, quicker than they realize.Collection: Giving Up
Your core values are the deeply held beliefs that authentically describe your soul.Collection: Soul
The purpose of leadership is to take others to the top. And when you take others who might not make it to the top otherwise, there's no other feeling like it in the world. To those who have never had the experience, you can't explain it. To those who have, you don't need to.Collection: Motivational
Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team's performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded people.Collection: Leadership
Tomorrow really will take care of itself if I do the right thing today.Collection: Care
Every journey toward a dream is personal, and as a result, so is the price that must be paid for it.Collection: Dream
You cannot manage a decision you haven't made.Collection: Decision
Most pastors have a hard time grasping a vision. But vision is the indispensable quality of a leader.Collection: Hard Times
Remember, at the time God gives us a vision, we never have the resources available to accomplish it. We don't have the people, the money, the knowledge, or the opportunity.Collection: Opportunity
When somebody tells you he or she is leading something, a fair question is, "What is your vision?"Collection: Vision
For pastors who have a dream and who are walking in obedience but still don't have the resources they need, don't worry. Keep walking in obedience.Collection: Dream
I wrote the book [Today Matters] because I have a passion to help people personally grow. Really what it is, it's a personal growth book.Collection: Book
We over-exaggerate yesterday. We either think it was better or worse than it was - you know, the good old days. We over-estimate tomorrow; we think we can do more than we can - always. And that's why we put off everything till tomorrow.Collection: Thinking
We are so blessed, we get hundreds of emails a day that say, “John, I’ve worked this plan for one year and I can really see my growth.” So what I would love is for readers to do that for a year and then email me.Collection: Blessed
In my leadership conferences, pastors ask, "Do you have a vision for my church?" Many times they want me to give them a picture of where they should go and what their church should look like. When these pastors do this, I always feel bad.Collection: Giving
The rallying call to people is to give them hope. When you have hope, that's huge.Collection: People
God has never given a dream that could be fulfilled at step one. So start walking, be obedient, and watch God fulfill that dream in your life.Collection: Dream
I grew up in the home of a pastor, and my earliest memory is that God really had a plan for my life and that I was special - this is really weird - but I felt that.Collection: Memories
I tell a person, "If I could go home with you tomorrow and you and I could spend the day together from maybe 8:00 to 6:00, and we went out to a restaurant at 6:30, I could tell you with a high degree of accuracy how successful you're going to be." That's huge because I'm just going to look and see, what kind of attitude do you have, how do you relate to people, how well do you prioritize your life? I'm going to see all of those things in the process of a day.Collection: Attitude
When you finish reading the book [Today Matters], take the daily dozen and list them in order of how well you do them. For example, the one that I would put at the highest for me is attitude or relationships because I'm really strong at both of those. At the bottom would be health. What I tell people is, "Take one month and work on one of the daily dozen for a whole year." And so it's really a one-year personal growth plan.Collection: Strong
Without a vision our community will perish without Christ, but without a vision the church will perish as well.Collection: Community
People are not going to give you a vision, but God can.Collection: People
The wrong action done at the wrong time spells disaster The right action done at the wrong time spells resistance The wrong action done at the right time spells mistake but The right action done at the right time spells a miracleCollection: Mistake
Momentum solves 80% of your problems.Collection: Momentum
Credibility is a leader's currency. With it, he or she is solvent; without it, he or she is bankrupt.Collection: Leadership
You can't move people to action unless you first move them with emotion. The heart comes before the head.Collection: Moving
Success is... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.Collection: Inspirational
Great communication depends on two simple skills-context, which attunes a leader to the same frequency as his or her audience, and delivery, which allows a leader to phrase messages in a language the audience can understand.Collection: Leadership
If you want to be great, you can't be great by yourself. You gotta to bring people around you. As the the challenge escalates, the need for teamwork elevates. The greater the challenge, the better the team.Collection: Teamwork
Connecting is the ability to identify with people and relate to them in a way that increases your influence with them.Collection: Leadership
You win people's hearts by helping them grow personally.Collection: Heart
Dreams require down payments. Dreams are free, but the journey isn't. There is a price to pay. When you find your why you'll find your way. When you develop your will you will embark on your way. Many people start; few people finish. Many people have a dream; few people achieve their dreams.Collection: Dream
A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him.Collection: Inspirational
If you believe in others and give them a positive reputation to uphold, you can help them to become better than they think they are.Collection: Appreciation