Inspirational Quotes by John C. Maxwell

“To be successful is to be helpful, caring, and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better. The best thing you have to give is yourself.” If”

“Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. —Bernard Montgomery,”

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

“Such sober warnings in the Word of God should impress upon us the importance of keeping our priorities straight: God first, family second, ministry or career third. Only when a leader’s relationship to God is right, and only when responsibilities as a family member are being properly met, can the leader be fully faithful in exercising the ministry God has given him or her.”

“Now Samuel was a very successful judge. In 1 Samuel 3:19–20 it is said of him, “The Lord was with Samuel as he grew up, and he let none of his words fall to the ground. And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba recognized that Samuel was attested as a prophet of the Lord” (NIV). Yet, Samuel watched the nation that he loved and led turn from the purposes of God. As God’s chosen people, the Israelites were never meant to have a king; God was to be their king. But because Samuel failed to rear his sons in the fear of the Lord, Israel rejected the rule of God over them. In 1 Samuel 8:1–5 we read, And it came about when Samuel was old that he appointed his sons judges over Israel. Now the name of his firstborn was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judging in Beersheba. His sons, however, did not walk in his ways, but turned aside after dishonest gain and took bribes and perverted justice. Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah; and they said to him, “Behold, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king for us to judge us like all the nations.”

“Sowing seeds of trust with people creates the fields of collaboration necessary to get extraordinary things done in organizations.6”

“The way President Abraham Lincoln is said to have handled a person who had a know-it-all attitude. Lincoln asked, “How many legs will a sheep have if you call a tail a leg?” “Five,” the man answered. “No,” replied Lincoln, “he’ll still have four, because calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it one.”

“The best way to develop rational, well-balanced confidence is to go after a few victories immediately following a failure.”

“The longest distance between two points is a shortcut.” That’s really true. For everything of value in life, you pay a price.”

“Goethe recommended, “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.”

“You must have a long-range vision to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.” —CHARLES NOBLE”

“Servant leaders should listen without judgment, be authentic, build community, share power, and develop people.6”

“People who make growth their goal—instead of a title, position, salary, or other external target—always have a future.”

“Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.”

“Most good leaders want the perspective of people they trust.”

“In the closing years of John Wesley’s life, he became a friend of William Wilberforce. In England, Wilberforce was a great champion of freedom for slaves before the American Civil War. He was subjected to a vicious campaign by slave traders and others whose powerful commercial interests were threatened. Rumors were spread that he was a wife-beater. His character, morals, and motives were repeatedly smeared during some twenty years of pitched battles. From his deathbed, John Wesley wrote to Wilberforce, “Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be won out by the opposition of men and devils; but if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? Be not weary in well-doing.” William Wilberforce never forgot those words of John Wesley. They kept him going even when all the forces of hell were arrayed against him. The”

“only people who can see the invisible can do the impossible.”

“H. Nelson Jackson said, “I do not believe you can do today’s job with yesterday’s methods and be in business tomorrow.”

“only secure leaders exhibit servanthood.”

“El nivel más básico del liderazgo es el nivel de la Posición. ¿Por qué este es el nivel más bajo? Porque la Posición representa el liderazgo antes de que un líder haya desarrollado ninguna influencia real en las personas que son lideradas”