John C. Maxwell
If you want to attract people, you need to be like people you enjoy being with.Collection: People
An idea is worthless unless you use it.Collection: Ideas
Image is what people think we are. Integrity is what we really are.Collection: Integrity
If you're a leader, it's important to set aside time to quiet yourself and listen for God's direction.Collection: Leader
Live to learn and you will really learn to live.Collection: Motivational
Acquiring and keeping good people is a leader's most important task.Collection: People
We fail, not because of big problems, but because of small purposes.Collection: Purpose
We cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with our beliefs.Collection: Motivational
I believe that everyone chooses how to approach life. If you're proactive, you focus on preparing. If you're reactive, you end up focusing on repairing.Collection: Motivational
If your job is not making a difference in this world, by all means, get out there and find something else ... You’ll find a sense of making a difference through your work if you simply look for it.Collection: Jobs
God has never given anybody a dream that He did not want that person to fulfill.Collection: Dream
You cannot buy or win happiness. You must choose it.Collection: Motivational
The better you are at surrounding yourself with people of high potential, the greater your chance for success.Collection: Leadership
Talent is a gift, but our character is a choice. Talent is natural ability, our gift from God, but we have the power to determine our character. That power rests on a foundation consisting of the choices we make in life. And those choices almost always dictate the amount of trust others have in us, and to what level of leadership we rise.Collection: Character
Wanting to win isn't enough. You have to go through a process to improve. That takes patience, perseverance, and intentionality.Collection: Motivational
It's been said that commitment is another name for success.Collection: Positive
If you live life with the intention of making a difference in others' lives, your life will be full not empty.Collection: Live Life
The first step to leadership is servanthood.Collection: Leadership
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean giving up familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, and relationships that have lost their meaning.Collection: Leadership
A highly credible leader under-promises and over-delivers.Collection: Leadership
Never open a can of worms unless you plan to go fishing.Collection: Fishing
Everyone gets discourages...The question is: Are you going to give up or get up? It's a choice.Collection: Giving Up
Teams make you better than you are, multiply your value, enable you to do what you do best, allow you to help others do their best, give you more time, provide you with companionship, help you fulfill the desires of your heart and compound your vision and effort.Collection: Leadership
Your attitude determines your actions, and your actions determine your accomplishment.Collection: Attitude
If you travel alone, you can probably go faster. But the journey will never be as rewarding, and you probably won't be able to go as far.Collection: Inspirational
Everyone who got where he is started where he was.Collection: Preparation
A leader who loves status quo soon becomes a follower.Collection: Leader
I say this in the book [Today Matters], we either spend our day repairing or preparing, and if I haven't taken good care of my today's, they accumulate. So all of a sudden today what I'm doing is I'm going back, I'm repairing bad relationships and wrong decisions, and I'm digging a hole. I'm not making any progress because I'm in a repairing mode, versus if I really make today count that prepares me for tomorrow. Tomorrow really will take care of itself if I do the right thing today.Collection: Book
We won't fully experience joy until we've answered life's biggest question: Why am I here?Collection: Joy
The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.Collection: Thinking
Talent allows people to stand out, but their wrong choices make them sit down.Collection: People
Deciding what to be is more important than deciding what to do.Collection: Important
The best leaders are humble enough to realize their victories depend upon their people.Collection: Humble
The leader is there for the people, not the people for the leaderCollection: People
A person who has a dream knows what he is willing to give up in order to go up.Collection: Dream
If you want to help others and become a person of influence, keep smiling, sharing, giving, and turning the other cheek.Collection: Helping Others
All things being equal, attitude wins. All things not being equal, attitude sometimes still wins.Collection: Attitude
Self fulfillment thinks of how something serves me. Self development thinks of how something helps me to serve others. With self fulfillment, feeling good is the product. With self development, feeling good is the by-product.Collection: Thinking
The harder you try to forget something, the more you think about it subconsciously.Collection: Thinking
People have a seed to success within them. Most never find it and therefore fail to reach their potential. Occasionally, a leader discovers it and helps that individual develop it. For both, they now can fulfill the purpose for which they are born.Collection: People
I always find the greatest help I receive is from people who have been where I have been, but now they're no longer there.Collection: People
Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation for success.Collection: Effectiveness
If you want to make your mother happy, talk to her. If you want to make your father happy, listen.Collection: Mother
The younger you are, the more experimenting you should do. But once you've found what you were created to do, stick with it.Collection: Sticks
Rotten Attitudes ruin a team.Collection: Teamwork
The truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement.Collection: Teamwork
Every change in human attitude must come through internal understanding and acceptance. Man is the only known creature who can reshape and remould himself by altering his attitude.Collection: Attitude
The size of a person is more important than the size of the problem.Collection: Attitude