Inspirational Quotes by John C. Maxwell
“«En el control de calidad no nos preocupa el producto, nos preocupa el proceso. Si el proceso es correcto, el producto está garantizado». Lo mismo se aplica a la integridad: garantiza la credibilidad.”
“Everyone starts out bad, regardless of what they’re practicing for. We start so we can improve. We start before we’re ready because we need and want to get better. The idea is to deliver our best each time we try until one day, we become good. And then one day, we may even have a chance to be great. That’s growth. But we can’t evolve if we don’t start.”
“Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art, identifies this reluctance. He calls it resistance. He writes, “There is a force resisting the beautiful things in the world, and too many of us are giving in.”
“Money is like manure. If you let it pile up, it just smells. But if you spread it around, you can encourage things to grow.”
“Successful people do the things that unsuccessful people are unwilling to do.”
“you must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.”
“You can't make the other fellow feel important in your presence if you secretly feel that he is a nobody.”
“What’s worse than training your people and losing them? Not training them and keeping them.”
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
“The closest to perfection people ever come is when they write their resumes .”
“Let me help you by telling you something you need to know. You won’t do well the first time you do anything. You don’t know what you’re doing when you start. Nobody is good at the beginning of doing something new. Get over it.”
“Children now log about twenty-two thousand hours watching television by age nineteen, more than twice the time spent in school.3”
“However, as a leader, if you can add results to relationships and develop a team of people who like each other and get things done, you have created a powerful combination.”
“part of the parenting process is helping children understand that they are not the center of the universe.”
“If you want to live a life that matters, don’t start when you get good; start now so you become good.”
“An infant is born with a clenched fist; a man dies with an open hand. Life has a way of prying free the things we think are so important.”
“There are three questions you need to ask and answer to test your readiness to be a catalyst for significance,” Jim replied. “They are: Can you be the best in the world at what you do? Are you passionate about what you are doing? Do you have the resources to change your world?”
“Porque sólo las personas maduras que se enfocan en el prójimo son capaces de establecer relaciones genuinas con los demás.”
“Nobody on his death bed ever said, ‘I wish I had spent more time on my business.”
“While trying is filled with good intentions, doing is the result of intentional living.”
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John C. Maxwell (born 1947) is an evangelical Christian author, speaker, and pastor who has written more than 50 books, primarily focusing on leadership.
His organizations have trained 2 million leaders worldwide. Every year he speaks to Fortune 500 companies, international government leaders, and audiences as diverse as the United States Military Academy at West Point, the National Football League, and ambassadors at the United Nations.
John C. Maxwell was born in Garden City, Michigan. His father, Melvin, was a minister in a local Wesleyan church. Maxwell followed his father into the ministry, completing a Bachelor's degree at Ohio Christian University in 1969, a Master of Divinity degree at Azusa Pacific University, and a Doctor of Ministry degree at Fuller Theological Seminary. Maxwell has received five honorary doctorates of divinity (including ones from the California Graduate School of Theology and Liberty University).