John C. Maxwell Quotes

The effectiveness of your work will never rise above your ability to lead and influence others. You cannot produce consistently on a level higher than your leadership. In other words, your leadership skills determine the level of your success-and the success of those who work around you.

We need to decide how we want to be treated. Then we need to begin treating others in that manner.

"isn't fair. It isn't going to be fair. Stop sniveling and whining and go out and make it happen for you." Wishing that a risk wasn't yours to take won't make it any easier. In fact, it might make it harder. Your attitude about it is your choice.

Sometimes we are afraid because success puts pressure on us to continue to succeed.

Everything looks like a failure in the middle.

"Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." If

Action is what converts human dreams into significance.

As Thomas Jefferson proclaimed, “In matters of fashion, swim with the current. In matters of conscience, stand like a rock.

"Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another." Book: "The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership" (1998) page 12

"The greatest danger to most organizations is not external threats, but internal weaknesses." The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership" (1998) page 145

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." The Leadership Handbook" (2011), page 17

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." Sometimes You Win--Sometimes You Learn" (2013) page 13

"The best leaders are those who understand that their power comes not from their position, but from their ability to empower others." The 5 Levels of Leadership" (2011) page 21

All great achievers are given multiple reasons to believe they are failures. But in spite of that they persevere.