John C. Maxwell
Team leaders have to connect with their team and themselves. If they don't know their team's strengths and weaknesses, they cannot hand off responsibilities to the team. And if they don't know their own strengths and weaknesses, they will not hand off responsibilities to the team.Collection: Team
Making matters worse is people's natural inclination to be easy on themselves, judging themselves according to their good intentions-while holding others to a higher standard and judging them by their worst actions.Collection: Judging
The key choices you make-apart from the natural talent you already have-will set you apart from others who have talent alone.Collection: Keys
When problems confront successful leaders, they get excited about the opportunity.Collection: Basketball
When your through changing, your through!Collection: Maturity
Change means traveling in uncharted waters and this causes our securities to rise.Collection: Mean
The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.Collection: Effectiveness
Over time, is it easier or harder to sustain your influence within your organization? With charisma alone, influence becomes increasingly more difficult to sustain. With character, as time passes, influence builds and requires less work to sustain.Collection: Leadership
Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent inside of them.Collection: Leadership
Transmit your vision emotionally by gaining credibility, demonstrating passion, establishing relationships and communicating a felt need. Transmit it logically by confronting reality, formulating strategy, accepting responsibility, celebrating victory and learning from defeat.Collection: Leadership
She that fails to command her thoughts will soon lose command of her actions.Collection: Thinking
The law of the [Cub Scout] pack guides the boys to move in the direction of being helpful, friendly, courteous, trustworthy and promote qualities which parents and the community are looking for. The whole purpose of scouting is to help the children grow up making good decisions in life.Collection: Children
To achieve all that is possible, we must attempt the impossible. To be all we can be, we must dream of being more.Collection: Dream
Nothing speaks like results. If you want to build the kind of credibility that connects with people, then deliver results before you deliver a message. Get out and do what you advise others to do. Communicate from experience.Collection: Leadership
People rise and fall to meet your level of expectations for them. If you express skepticism and doubt in others, they will return your lack of confidence with mediocrity. But if you believe in them and expect them to do well, they will go the extra mile trying to do their best.Collection: Believe
If you don't change the direction you are going, then you're likely to end up where you're heading.Collection: Inspirational
if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.Collection: Inspirational
When it comes to money, you can't win. If you focus on making it, you're materialistic. If you try to but don't make any, you're a loser. If you make a lot and keep it, you're a miser. If you make it and spend it, you're a spendthrift. If you don't care about making it, you're unambitious. If you make a lot and still have it when you die, you're a fool-for trying to take it with you. The only way to really win with money is to hold it loosely-and be generous with it to accomplish things of value.Collection: Money
Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.Collection: Agendas
Encouragement is oxygen for the soulCollection: Encouragement
If you desire to become a more generous person, don't wait for your income to change. Change your heart.Collection: Heart
If you can learn to understand people how they think, what they feel, what inspires them, how they're likely to act and react in a given situation- then you can motivate and influence them in a positive way.Collection: Thinking
The secret of successful people lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.Collection: Lying
To measure a leader, put a tape around his heart, not his head.Collection: Heart
Find something you like to do so much that you would gladly do it for nothing; then learn to do it so well that people are happy to pay you for it.Collection: Motivational
It's true that charisma can make a person stand out for a moment, but character sets a person apart for a lifetime.Collection: Inspirational
You can't be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.Collection: Attitude
God has put a dream inside you. It's yours, and no one else's. It declares your uniqueness. It holds your potential. Only you can birth it. Only you can live it. Not to discover it, take responsibility for it, and act upon it is to negatively affect yourself as well as all those who would benefit from your dream.Collection: Dream
It's good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don't step out of your gift zone.Collection: Comfort
Needless to say, you can love people without leading them, but you cannot lead people without loving them.Collection: Leadership
Great leaders understand that the right attitude will set the right atmosphere, which enables the right response from others.Collection: Attitude
When you find your spiritual gift, God will give you an opportunity to use it.Collection: Spiritual
The GREATEST battle you wage against FAILURE occurs on the INSIDE, not the OUTSIDE.Collection: Battle
A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.Collection: Inspirational
The person who does only what he must when he is in the mood or when it's convenient isn't going to be successful.Collection: Successful
The Wrong Person in the Wrong Place = Regression. The Wrong Person in the Right Place = Frustration. The Right Person in the Wrong Place = Confusion. The Right Person in the Right Place = Progression. The Right People in the Right Places = Multiplication.Collection: Teamwork
Without a vision people in leadership positions perish. You not only lose your people, you lose the person who is in a leadership position - you lose it all.Collection: People
Everything is a tradeoff. Everywhere you leave, you leave some good things. The more successful you are, the harder it is to make tradeoffs. That's why some people become successful and then become flat. Be willing to give up income for potential, for opportunity.Collection: Monday
Hope is not strategy. Hope fits with vision, but we must have a strategy and a process to make our vision become a reality.Collection: Reality
Leader’s potential is determined by those closest to him.Collection: Leader
If you want to make a positive impact, no matter how far-reaching, start at home. Treat your family members like treasures.Collection: Motivational
You will never be able to bet on yourself unless you believe in yourself.Collection: Believe
The happiest people are those who have harvested their time in others. The unhappiest people are those who wonder how the world is going to make them happy.Collection: Wrestling
There are two paths people can take. They can either play now and pay later, or pay now and play later. Regardless of the choice, one thing is certain. Life will demand a payment.Collection: Inspirational
The bookends of success are starting and finishing. Decisions help us start; discipline helps us finish.Collection: Discipline
The timing of your decision is just as important as the decision you make.Collection: Inspirational
A leader who develops people adds; a leader who develops leaders multiplies.Collection: Leadership
Difficulties seldom defeat people; lack of faith in themselves usually does it.Collection: People
Generally speaking, there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others.Collection: Mistake