John C. Maxwell
Collaboration is multiplication.Collection: Teamwork
Ordinary people with commitment can make an extraordinary impact on the their world.Collection: Teamwork
If a leader cannot give you a clear picture of what he or she sees in the future, that person is not the leader of that organization.Collection: Organization
I think success has a lot to do with my own personal growth.Collection: Thinking
Churches whose members fight with one another have lost their vision for the lost.Collection: Fighting
The great leaders in history were great not because of what they owned or earned but because of what they gave their lives to accomplish. They made a difference!Collection: Leadership
Many pastors fail to see God's vision fulfilled because they never have a strategy for fulfilling that vision.Collection: Vision
People must learn how to think well to achieve their dreams and to reach their potential.Collection: Dream
I think we impress people by our success, but I think we impact them by our failures.Collection: Thinking
If you wouldn't follow yourself, why should anyone else?Collection: Should
Cooperation is working together agreeably... Collaboration is working together aggressively; and theres a world of difference between those two.Collection: Two
The only way a church is going to be relevant is to get out of its comfort zone and connect with unchurched people.Collection: People
The key word in the church community is relationships, you know brother and sister in Christ.Collection: Brother
Everybody can be somebody when somebody understands and believes in her.Collection: Believe
We all stand on the shoulders of the past generation.Collection: Success
Grow a leader-grow the organization. A company cannot grow without until its leaders grow within.Collection: Organization
I kept saying to myself, this is a calling that God has given me. And so with intention I said, "Okay I'm going to write books not only for the Christian community, but also for the secular community." I found it really rewarding because the last one to use my gifts and advantages to people who look at church as not on their radar screen at all, it gives me favor with - I do a lot with Fortune 500 companies now.Collection: Christian
Not everybody who has a vision is a leader, but every leader has a vision.Collection: Leader
I wish I could say I coined the phrase "failing forward." I do it all the time. I find as I've embraced this approach to business, life, cycling and generally any new endeavor I take on, I've grown more and more comfortable with the possibility that I am not likely to succeed on my first try. And that's ok.Collection: Cycling
I have found progress, personal growth, and new and exciting opportunities in my failure. I've grown more comfortable with the fact that in certain circumstances, I'm the person in the room who knows the least about what's going on.Collection: Opportunity
The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm.Collection: Leader
When the pastor and his or her church have a vision, they will put their energy, time, money, and personnel into achieving it.Collection: Past
Progress is often just a good idea away.Collection: Inspirational
There is a real hunger for spiritual things in today's culture; people are seeking something spiritual, something beyond themselves. That's the good news. The bad news is people are not getting it at church because the church is singing songs, preaching messages, doing programs, and taking offerings for itself.Collection: Spiritual
Let God talk to you and minister to you, where you get honest with Him - here's what I do well and don't do well; here are my shortcomings, my strengths, and my gifts.Collection: Letting Go
If you want to improve your world, then focus your attention on helping others.Collection: Helping Others
A leader is a reader.Collection: Leader
Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve, you have to win the war in your thinking first. You can't let the failure outside you get inside you.Collection: Jobs
Loyalty to the leader reaches its highest peak when the follower has personally grown through the mentorship of the leader.Collection: Loyalty
People don't really know whether they are committed to something until they face adversity.Collection: Adversity
For the person trying to do everything alone, the game really is over. If you want to do something big, you must link up with others. One is too small a number to achieve greatness. That's the Law of Significance.Collection: Greatness
Leaders who fail to lift others in the long run, fail to lift themselves.Collection: Running
If people around you don't believe in you, if they don't encourage you, then you need to find some people who do.Collection: Believe
The more people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.Collection: Views
They can't hurt you unless you let them.Collection: Confidence
Every sailor knows that you can't sail a ship that isn't moving forward, strong leaders understand that to change direction, you first have to create forward progress.Collection: Change
Don't hide bad news. With multiple information channels available, bad news always becomes known. Be candid right from the start.Collection: News
You don't become a success when you get your diploma, you became a success when you decided to go to college when you get your diploma you get the rewards of success.Collection: Success
Success is choosing to enter the arena of action, determined to give yourself to the cause that will better humanity and last for eternity.Collection: Giving
Leadership deals with people and their dynamics, which are continually changing. The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth.Collection: People
There is no quicker way to earn respect as a leader than being slow to speak. It is called listening and it plays a big role in what I call “The Law of Connection.” How will you know what is important to people unless you ask and listen to the answers? If you prove to be a leader who solicits feedback and pays attention to what’s being said, then you will earn your connection and your followers will respect the guidance you give.Collection: Law
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. This sequence is something that all achievers have in common. They do not see a mistake is as their failure; rather it is simply a learning experience. Achievers view a mistake as an opportunity to do something over again and do it right the second time. A mistake is simply the price they pay to achieve success.Collection: Strong
Leadership is seeing the possibilities in a situation while others are seeing the limitations.Collection: Possibility
A good environment certainly makes it easier to grow. But whether you’re in a good environment or not, you can learn and improve where you are.Collection: Environment
People tend to become what the most important people in their lives think they will become.Collection: Thinking
Out of what I had received in my development, I was also able to give. The confidence I gained from personal growth gave me credibility and made me believe I could start developing others. And in that, I found life's greatest joy and reward.Collection: Believe
There is no success without failure and losses.Collection: Loss
One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination.Collection: Motivational