Inspirational Quotes by John C. Maxwell
“TO GET THE BEST OUT OF PEOPLE, LEADERS MUST ASK FOR THE BEST FROM PEOPLE.”
“Successful people are good in four areas: relationships, equipping, attitude, and leadership. Those”
“Connecting has a lot to do with letting who you are influence everything you do.”8”
“Pero el éxito es en realidad el resultado de la planeación. Se da cuando se juntan la oportunidad y la preparación.”
“Learn as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow.”
“To be significant, all you have to do is make a difference with others wherever you are, with whatever you have, day by day.”
“El fracaso es la oportunidad de comenzar de nuevo más inteligentemente.”
“íntimos, Terry y Shirley Stauber, a que nos acompañaran. Para que el viaje fuera aún más especial, reservamos habitaciones”
“Results: Create Victories Through Multiplication When you work together with your teammates, you can do remarkable things. If you work alone, you leave a lot of victories on the table.”
“When you intentionally use your everyday life to bring about positive change in the lives of others, you begin to live a life that matters.”
“Write down somewhere in the margins on this page your answer to this question: How have you changed . . . lately? In the last week, let’s say? Or in the last month? The last year? Can you be very specific? Or must your answer be incredibly vague? You say you’re growing. Okay . . . how? “Well,” you say, “In all kinds of ways.” Great! Name one. You see, effective teaching comes only through a changed person. The more you change, the more you become an instrument of change in the lives of others. If you want to become a change agent, you also must change.2 Change the leader—change the organization.”
“To become a collaborative team player . . . •Think win-win-win. King Solomon of ancient Israel observed, “Iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.”3 Usually when you collaborate with others, you win, they win, and the team wins. Find someone on the team with a similar role whom you have previously seen as a competitor. Figure out ways you can share information and work together to benefit both you and the team.”
“I feel like one little fellow who knelt at the side of his bed, closed his eyes, and prayed, “God bless Mom. God bless Dad. God bless Grandma.” He said it the same way every time. But one night he added, “And please take care of yourself, God. ’Cause if anything happens to you, we’re all sunk!”
“The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.”
“What people need is not a motto to say, but a model to see. THE”
“Haven’t you known highly talented people who have squandered their potential because they wouldn’t do anything? And don’t you know people less talented than you who are more successful? That is often due, in part, to commitment.”
“William A. Hewitt, Chairman of Deere and Company, says, “To be a leader you must preserve all through your life the attitude of being receptive to new ideas. The quality of leadership you will give will depend upon your ability to evaluate new ideas, to separate change for the sake of change from change for the sake of me.”
“I believed that if you have the heart to make a difference, there is always an answer, but if you have a heart of indifference, there is never an answer.”
“LEADERS Initiate Lead; pick up phone and make contact Spend time planning anticipate problems Invest time with people Fill the calendar by priorities FOLLOWERS React Listen; wait for phone to ring Spend time living day-to-day; react to problems Spend time with people Fill the calendar by requests”
“Don’t settle for being merely a teller of stories about significance. Decide to be the story of significance. Become the central character in your story of making a difference!”
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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).