John C. Maxwell
Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.Collection: Success
By choosing to embrace and practice good values every day, you choose the higher course in life. And your life goes in a direction that you will always feel good about. You may not always get what you desire, but you will always be the person you desire to be.Collection: Motivational
Find your vision, and let it guide you in all that you do. If you lack vision, look inside yourself. Draw on your natural gifts and desires.Collection: Vision
I define self-control, in the beginning of life, as the choice of achieving what I really want by doing things I really don't want to do. Once this becomes a habit, discipline becomes the choice of achieving what I really want by doing the very things I now want to do! I really believe that a disciplined life becomes a joy--but only after we have worked hard to practice it.Collection: Believe
Good leaders understand that they are stewards. They must find the best people they can, giving them the opportunity to join in the journey developing them, and encouraging them to reach their potential. But they must hold on to people lightly. Those who start with you seldom finish with you.Collection: Motivational
It takes a lot of people to create a success. That's why I say that few leaders are successful unless a lot of people want them to be.Collection: Leadership
Leaders determine the level of an organization.Collection: Organization
It takes a leader to know a leader, grow a leader, and show a leader.Collection: Leader
Unless you want to carry the whole load yourself, you need to be developing leaders.Collection: Leader
Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess.Collection: Skills
Confidence is a characteristic of a positive attitude. The greatest achievers and leaders remain confident regardless of circumstances.Collection: Attitude
Trust must be built day by day. It calls for consistency.Collection: Leader
It is the leader's job to hold hope high.Collection: Jobs
With a little faith in themselves people, people can do miraculous things. But without it, they have a really tough time.Collection: People
..Give them your faith, and they become confident, energized, and self-reliant.Collection: Self
Praise them for what they do well, both privately and publicly.Collection: Influence
People of influence understand the incredible value of becoming a good listener.Collection: People
If you show people how much you care and ask questions in a non threatening way, you'll be amazed by how much they'll tell you.Collection: People
Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others.Collection: Impact
For years I kept a sign on my desk that helped me maintain the right perspective concerning yesterday. It simply said, 'yesterday ended last night.' It reminded me that no matter how badly I might have failed in the past, it's done, and today is a new day.Collection: Motivational
If you are leading others and you're lonely, then you're not doing it right. Think about it. If you're all alone, that means nobody is following you. And if nobody is following you, you're not really leading!Collection: Motivational
Conflict is like cancer; early detection increases the possibility of a healthy outcome.Collection: Cancer
Enlightenment writer and philosopher Voltaire likened life to a game of cards. Players must accept the cards dealt to them. However, once they have those cards in hand, they alone choose how they will play them. They decide what risks and actions to take.Collection: Player
You have no control over how much talent you possess. You control only what you do with it.Collection: Talent
Are you a thinker, a doer, or a clutch player? The better you are, the greater potential for influence you will have with your people.Collection: Player
A lot of people believe they are successful because they have everything they want. They have added value to themselves. But I believe significance comes when you add value to others and you can't have true success without significance.Collection: Believe
The key to becoming a more efficient leader isn't checking off all the items on your to-do list each day. It's in forming the habit of prioritizing your time so that you are accomplishing your most important goals in an efficient manner.Collection: Keys
Passion creates energy and magnetically pulls co-workers and customers into a shared vision, and it is exceptionally strong when linked with a leader's values.Collection: Strong
The last decision I made was my health when I had a heart attack when I was 51.Collection: Heart
A leader's lasting value is measured by succession.Collection: Leader
Leadership is not a right-it is a responsibility.Collection: Leadership
You invest yourself in what you believe can succeed.Collection: Inspirational
Experience isn't the best teacher - evaluated experience is.Collection: Teacher
If your face is going to “talk” for you anyway, you might as well have it communicate something positive.Collection: Might
All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others.Collection: Responsibility
Relationships are the foundation of leadership.Collection: Foundation
Sometimes I think it's a lack of knowing the areas. Obviously, everybody knows that health is important so that's - but why was I not doing the right thing? Because I was deceived.Collection: Thinking
You realize that we over-exaggerate yesterday, we over-estimate tomorrow and we underestimate today. We think, "Well, I'm going to kill time," "I'll get back to this tomorrow."Collection: Thinking
Intentional living is the bridge to significance. At the end of every year, I take time out to reflect and evaluate the events of the previous year - what went well and what needed improvement. From that inventory, I lay out my next year - how I intend to live, make the best use of time and maximize adding value to others. Success asks, 'How can I add value to myself?' Significance asks, 'How can I add value to others?' It is your intention that lends itself to significance.Collection: Years
Disappointment is the gap that exists between expectation and reality.Collection: Disappointment
An attitude's growth never stops.Collection: Attitude
People do not give from the top of their purses but from the bottom of their hearts. If you desire to become a more generous person do not change your income. Change your heart.Collection: Heart
The greatest detriment to many people's success tomorrow is their thinking today.Collection: Thinking
Poem by Howard A. Walter (Character) I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there are those who suffer; I would be brave, for there is much to dare. I would be friend of all--- the foe, the friendless; I would be giving, and forget the gift; I would be humble, for I know my weakness; I would look up, and laugh, and love, and lift.Collection: Strong
There was a very cautious man Who never laughed or played He never risked, he never tried, He never sang or prayed. And when he on day passed away, His insurance was denied, For since he never really lived, They claimed he never really died. (Anonymous poem)Collection: Men
A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do." (Leroy Eims)Collection: Leadership
Always turn to God in the midst of your struggle and view people who offended you as an instruments of divine sovereignty.Collection: Struggle
You see, when our attitudes outdistance our abilities, even the impossible becomes possible.Collection: Attitude
A leader's attitude is caught by his or her followers more quickly than his or her actions.Collection: Positive