Inspirational Quotes by John C. Maxwell
“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.”
“Después de más de cuarenta años de matrimonio, una larga y exitosa carrera de orador, décadas de trabajo como líder de organizaciones y vasta experiencia en la formación de muchas personas en los Estados Unidos y en docenas de otros países, puedo asegurarte que si deseas tener éxito, debes aprender a relacionarte con los demás.”
“Nobody on his death bed ever said, ‘I wish I had spent more time on my business.”
“If you want to live a life that matters, don’t start when you get good; start now so you become good.”
“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.”
“you must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.”
“Hay algo que es mucho más importante y escaso que la capacidad, y esto es la capacidad para reconocer la capacidad.”
― John C. Maxwell ,
from Capacitación 101
“The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious. —John Sculley Former CEO of Pepsi and Apple Computer”
“A good leader encourages followers to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to hear”
“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.”
“Un buen liderazgo se aprende en las trincheras.”
“You have to look at the person’s gifts, temperament, passions, successes, joys, and opportunities. And once you find that seed, you need to fertilize it with encouragement and water it with opportunity. If you do, the person will blossom before your eyes.”
― John C. Maxwell ,
from Mentoring 101
“Imagen es lo que la gente piensa que somos. Integridad es lo que en realidad somos.”
“The first definition of planning that I ever learned was this: planning is predetermining tomorrow’s results today.”
“To go forward, we need to move faster. And as leaders, we need to stay ahead, we need to see more than others, and we need to see before others.”
“If you want to be successful as a leader, you need to learn to become comfortable with uncertainty and make shifts continually.”
“John, trust your future to God.”
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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).