John C. Maxwell
The difference between where we are and where we want to be is created by the changes we are willing to make in our lives. When you want something you've never had, you must do something you've never done to get it.Collection: Want Something
One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.Collection: Moving
When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.Collection: Commitment
The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.Collection: Numbers
If you don’t try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get.Collection: Trying
Your talk talks and your walk talks, but your walk talks louder than your talk talks.Collection: Walks
Make personal growth a daily priority.Collection: Priorities
Nothing of significance was ever achieved by an individual acting alone. Look below the surface and you will find that all seemingly solo acts are really team efforts.Collection: Team
Stay focused instead of getting offended or off track by others.Collection: Inspirational
If you think you are the entire picture, you will never see the big picture.Collection: Thinking
If a person doesn't govern his temper, his temper will govern him.Collection: Basketball
The greatest mistake a person can make is doing nothing.Collection: Mistake
As negative thoughts produce negative actions, so positive thoughts produce positive actions.Collection: Stay Positive
You can change your tomorrow if you do something today. Few people understand how the way you live today impacts your tomorrow. Today is the only time we have within our grasp, yet many people let it slip through their fingers, recognizing neither its value nor potential. If we want to do something with our lives, then we must make today matter, because that's where tomorrow's success lies.Collection: Lying
When you realize that people treat you according to how they see themselves rather than how you really are, you are less likely to be affected by their behavior.Collection: People
Our attitudes cannot stop our feelings, but they can keep our feelings from stopping us.Collection: Attitude
Must manage your thought life daily and then you can manage your life.Collection: Daily Life
The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.Collection: Inspirational
There are no half-hearted champions.Collection: Champion
The sum of all your thoughts comprises your overall attitude.Collection: Attitude
Circumstances do not make you what you are, they reveal what you are.Collection: Attitude
Good character improves every aspect of a person’s life.Collection: Character
If you really want to be a successful leader, you must develop other leaders around you. You must establish a team.Collection: Team
People may teach what they know, but they reproduce what they are.Collection: Motivational
I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.Collection: Differences
You have to know who you are to grow to your potential. But you have to grow in order to know who you are.Collection: Order
Most people use two totally different sets of criteria for judging themselves versus others. We tend to judge others according to their actions. It's very cut-and-dried. However, we judge ourselves by our intentions. Even if we do the wrong thing, if we believe our motives were good, we let ourselves off the hook. And we are often willing to do that over and over before requiring ourselves to change.Collection: Change
I've known people who thought that reaching their potential would come from shoring up their weaknesses. But do you know what happens when you spend all your time working on your weaknesses and never developing your strengths? If you work really hard, you might claw your way all the way to mediocrity! But you'll never get beyond it.Collection: People
It's easy to have a great attitude when things are going our way...It's when difficult challenges rise before us...that attitude becomes the difference maker.Collection: Positive
When you are bigger than your purpose you have a career. When your purpose is bigger than you, you have a calling.Collection: Careers
It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.Collection: Wise
Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.Collection: Discipline
Dont ever be impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and moving to a higher level of performance always requires change, and change feels awkward. But take comfort in the knowledge that if a change doesn't feel uncomfortable, then it's propably not really a change.Collection: Moving
If you lack initiative, recognize that the problem comes from the inside, not from others. Determine why you hesitate to take action. Does risk scare you? Are you discouraged by past failures? Do you not see the potential that opportunity offers? Find the source of your hesitation, and address it. You won't be able to move forward on the outside until you can move forward on the inside.Collection: Moving
Give God the first part of every day. Give God the first day of every week. Give God the first portion of your income. Give God the first consideration in every decision. Give God the first place in your life.Collection: Giving
You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.Collection: Preparing
If you don't love where you are right now, you won't love where you are going. Here is what I know: People who are passionate about what they do every day and love where they are in life are the fortunate ones. They have discovered their purpose. They are the difference makers who fully understand the gift of adding value, and yes, they can't help but love where they are going on their journey.Collection: Journey
Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.Collection: Character
Progress does not occur without change.Collection: Leadership
To succeed in life, we must stay within our strength zone but continually move outside our comfort zone.Collection: Leadership
The person who insists on using yesterday's methods in today's world won't be in business tomorrowCollection: Yesterday
Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.Collection: Responsibility
So think long and hard about who you're spending the most time with, for wherever they are headed, so are you.Collection: Thinking
People who blame others for their failures never overcome them. They simply move from problem to problem. To reach your potential, you must continually improve yourself, and you can't do that if you don't take responsibility for your actions and learn from your mistakes.Collection: Mistake
To be an influencer, you have to love people before you can try to lead them.Collection: People
You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.Collection: Discouraging
The highway of life is filled with flat squirrels that couldn't make a decision.Collection: Squirrels
Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking.Collection: Life Is Like