John C. Maxwell Quotes

You can't move people to action unless you first move them with emotion.... The heart comes before the head.

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.

True success comes only when every generation continues to develop the next generation.

Everyone is a leader because everyone influences someone.

You cannot change your life until you change something you do every day.

Question for God every morning:

What is the main event today? What do you want me to focus on today?

We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Growth inside fuels growth outside.

Dentists encourage us to use dental floss daily to promote the health of our teeth; we need to use mental floss to get rid of old thinking and promote the health of our leadership.

The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation.
Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or
whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what?
After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation
comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.

In most cases, those who want power probably shouldn't have it, those who enjoy it probably do so for the wrong reasons, and those who want most to hold on to it don't understand that it's only temporary.

People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.

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

The great men and women of history were not great because of what they earned and owned, but rather for what they gave their lives to accomplish.