John C. Maxwell Quotes About Decisions

Quotes about: Decisions

• We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Attitude, Choices

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “The Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You”, Thomas Nelson Inc

• Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.

  John C. Maxwell

  Communication, Skills, Decision

• Once a decision is made, you should stop worrying and start working. It’s not always what we know that makes it a good decision. It is what we do to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.

  John C. Maxwell

  Worry, Decision, Made

• The timing of your decision is just as important as the decision you make.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Decisions You Make, Important

• Integrity is not a given factor in everyone's life. It is a result of self-discipline, inner trust, and a decision to be relentlessly honest in all situations in our lives.

  John C. Maxwell

  Integrity, Self, Discipline

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.38, Thomas Nelson Inc

• It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.

  John C. Maxwell

  Decision, Quality, Determine

• If you don't change the direction you are going, then you're likely to end up where you're heading.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Choices, Decision

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “The Difference Maker: Making Your Attitude Your Greatest Asset”, p.89, Thomas Nelson Inc

• Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Communication, Simple

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”, p.23, HarperCollins Leadership

• Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Decision, Inability

• Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• Decision-making takes care of goal-setting, but discipline also takes care of goal-getting. Decisions and discipline can't be separated; one is worthless without the other.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspiring, Discipline, Goal

• If you have great people around you, they will take you higher than your dream will. Leaders are never self-made. Those closest to you determine your level of success, so choosing the right companions as partners in pursuit of your vision is an important decision. My advice is to surround yourself with talented people who will challenge you, help you grow and inspire you to maximize your potential.

  John C. Maxwell

  Dream, Self, People

• You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Choices, Decision

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.27, Thomas Nelson Inc

• Give God the first part of every day. Give God the first day of every week. Give God the first portion of your income. Give God the first consideration in every decision. Give God the first place in your life.

  John C. Maxwell

  Giving, Decision, Income

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “Leadership Principles for Graduates: Create Success in Life One Day at a Time”, p.114, Thomas Nelson Inc

• The highway of life is filled with flat squirrels that couldn't make a decision.

  John C. Maxwell

  Squirrels, Decision, Life Is

• Successful people make right decisions early and manage those decisions daily.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Successful, People

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization”, p.65, Thomas Nelson Inc

• There are two paths people can take. They can either play now and pay later, or pay now and play later. Regardless of the choice, one thing is certain. Life will demand a payment.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Play, Two

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.121, Thomas Nelson Inc

• I say this in the book [Today Matters], we either spend our day repairing or preparing, and if I haven't taken good care of my today's, they accumulate. So all of a sudden today what I'm doing is I'm going back, I'm repairing bad relationships and wrong decisions, and I'm digging a hole. I'm not making any progress because I'm in a repairing mode, versus if I really make today count that prepares me for tomorrow. Tomorrow really will take care of itself if I do the right thing today.

  John C. Maxwell

  Book, Taken, Bad Relationship

• Negative thinking creates clouds at critical decision times.

  John C. Maxwell

  Thinking, Clouds, Critical Decisions

  John C. Maxwell (1996). “The Winning Attitude: Your Pathway to Personal Success”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

• Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you'll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Thinking, Decision

• Integrity is the factor that determines which one will prevail. We struggle daily with situations that demand decisions between what we want to do and what we ought to do. Integrity establishes the ground rules for resolving these tensions. it determines who we are and how we will respond before the conflict even appears. Integrity welds what we say, think, and do, into a whole person so that permission is never granted for one of these to be out of sync.

  John C. Maxwell

  Integrity, Struggle, Thinking

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)”, p.36, Thomas Nelson

• Talk to people, not above them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Communication, People, Choices

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently”, p.155, Thomas Nelson Inc

• You cannot manage a decision you haven't made.

  John C. Maxwell

  Decision, Made, Havens

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• What I find them struggling most isn't with one of the twelve [things from daily list]; I find them struggling with what decisions to make.

  John C. Maxwell

  Struggle, Decision, Twelve

• we need to make a few critical decisions in major areas of life and then manage those decisions day to day.

  John C. Maxwell

  Critical Decisions, Needs, Areas

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “The 360 Degree Leader with Workbook: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization”, p.85, Thomas Nelson Inc

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