Inspirational Quotes by John C. Maxwell
“Ignorance means we didn’t have the necessary information; stupidity means we had the necessary information but misused it.”
“El hombre más paupérrimo no es el que no tiene ni un céntimo a su nombre. Es el que carece de un sueño... [Es como] una gran nave construida para el poderoso mar pero que intenta navegar en un charco. Carece de un puerto lejano que alcanzar, de un horizonte que se perfile, de un cargamento preciado que llevar. Sus horas son absorbidas por tiranías rutinarias e insignificantes. En nada sorprende que el tal se torne insatisfecho, contencioso y esté «harto». Una de las tragedias más grandes de la vida es la persona con una capacidad de diez por doce, pero con un alma de dos por cuatro.”
“Decide that People Are Worth the Effort:”
“To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often. —WINSTON CHURCHILL”
“La concentración dividida siempre trabaja en forma negativa.”
“El éxito puede conseguir distorsionar nuestra visión de la realidad. Puede hacernos creer que somos mejores de lo que realmente somos. Puede seducirnos a creer que no hay mucho más que aprender. Puede convencernos de que ya no deberíamos esperar afrontar y vencer el fracaso. Estos conceptos son peligrosos para cualquiera que quiera seguir mejorando.”
“How do the people around you react to the sparks of life? Are they fire lighters who blow things up, or firefighters who calm things down?”
“Work Through Your Insecurities:”
“Crisis doesn’t necessarily make character, but it certainly does reveal it.”
“At least once a year I'd ask Steve to point out anything he thought I was doing that was wrong or weaknesses in my leadership that he believed might have me headed for trouble. After a couple of years of this, Steve once said, 'John, you are the most successful person I work with, yet you are the only one who invites critism. Why?' "I don't trust anyone with power that can't be checked," I answered. "Especially me.”
“Positional Leaders Feed on Politics When leaders value position over the ability to influence others, the environment of the organization usually becomes very political. There is a lot of maneuvering. Positional leaders focus on control instead of contribution. They work to gain titles. They do what they can to get the largest staff and the biggest budget they can—not for the sake of the organization’s mission, but for the sake of expanding and defending their turf. And when a positional leader is able to do this, it often incites others to do the same because they worry that others’ gains will be their loss. Not only does it create a vicious cycle of gamesmanship, posturing, and maneuvering, but it also creates departmental rivalries and silos.”
“A good leader encourages followers to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to hear.”
“Having a strategy for evaluating your daily to-do list by priority is invaluable. After all, a life in which anything goes will ultimately be a life in which nothing goes well. But if you have no solutions for determining priorities other than that, you will still be too reactive instead of proactive as a leader. So I want to give you some tools that will help you with priorities in the bigger picture.”
“People who haven’t overcome major losses are prone to think they are invincible. They start to believe they are better than they really are and are inclined to misuse their power. Everyone who makes a major contribution to life knows what it is to have failures.”
“Las decisiones clave que hagas, aparte de tu talento natural, te separarán de los demás que sólo tengan talento.”
“Recruit the Best People You Can to Develop:”
“Love is the commitment to treat a person with dignity and kindness regardless of how you feel about him or her.”
“POINT OUT A GREAT STRENGTH OF SOMEONE IN YOUR LIFE TODAY.”
― John C. Maxwell ,
“Pocas cosas ayudan a una persona como el ánimo. George M. Adams lo llamó «el oxígeno del alma».”
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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).