John C. Maxwell Quotes

Nothing will make a better impression on your leader than your ability to manage yourself. If your leader must continually expend energy managing you, then you will be perceived as someone who drains time and energy. If you manage yourself well, however, your boss will see you as someone who maximizes opportunities and leverages personal strengths. That will make you someone your leader turns to when the heat is on.

"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 whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it.

Life is now in session. Are you present?

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

Always turn to God in the midst of your struggle and view people who offended you as an instruments of divine sovereignty.

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.

Leaders see everything with a leadership bias. Their focus is on mobilizing people and leveraging resources to achieve their goals rather than on using their own individual efforts. Leaders who want to succeed maximize every asset and resource they have for the benefit of their organization. For that reason, they are continually aware of what they have at their disposal.

Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.

Look behind you: What have you learned?
Look around you: What is happening to others?
Look above you: What does God expect of you?
Look besides you: What resources are available to you?

You must do right before you feel good.

Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business.

When you realize that people treat you according to how they see themselves rather than how you really are, you are less likely to be affected by their behavior.

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

Few things build a person up like affirmation. According to Webster’s New World Dictionary, Third College Edition (Simon and Schuster, 1991),
the word affirm comes from ad firmare, which means “to make firm.” So when you affirm people, you make firm within them the things you see about them. Do that often enough, and the belief that solidifies within them will become stronger than the doubts they have about themselves.