John C. Maxwell Motivational Quotes

Quotes about: Motivational

• Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Feb 16, 2016

• Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Leadership, Inspiration

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Aug 20, 2016

• People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.108, Thomas Nelson Inc

• The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions that Will Help You See It and Seize It”, p.169, Thomas Nelson Inc

• If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

• The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Feb 28, 2016

• People's purpose in life is always connected to their giftedness.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Leadership, People

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

• Question for God every morning: What is the main event today? What do you want me to focus on today?

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• Live to learn and you will really learn to live.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Leadership

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “The Choice is Yours: Today's Decisions for the Rest of Your Life”, Thomas Nelson Inc

• Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Preparation

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Mar 31, 2016

• The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to...failure.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “The Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You”, p.36, Thomas Nelson Inc

• We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “Beyond Talent: Become Someone Who Gets Extraordinary Results”, p.120, Thomas Nelson Inc

• The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Exercise, Persistence

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “Failing Forward”, p.43, Harper Collins

• Find something you like to do so much that you would gladly do it for nothing; then learn to do it so well that people are happy to pay you for it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Leadership, People

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.41, Thomas Nelson Inc

• Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Needs, Want

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Mar 11, 2016

• I think many people believe the best way they can help others is to criticize them, to give them the benefit of their 'wisdom.' I disagree. The best way to help people is to see the best in them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Believe, Helping Others

• When we are foolish, we want to conquer the world. When we are wise, we want to conquer ourselves. That begins when we do what we should no matter how we feel about it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Wise, Conquer The World

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.15, Thomas Nelson Inc

• By choosing to embrace and practice good values every day, you choose the higher course in life. And your life goes in a direction that you will always feel good about. You may not always get what you desire, but you will always be the person you desire to be.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Integrity, Practice

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

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• If you are in a leadership position, do not rely on your title to convince people to follow you. Build relationships. Win people over. Do that and you will never be a lonely leader.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Lonely, Winning

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.6, Thomas Nelson Inc

• Leaders need to remember that the point of leading is not to cross the finish line first. It's to take people across the finish line with you. For that reason, leaders must deliberately slow their pace, stay connected to their people, enlist others to help fulfill the vision, and keep people going. You can't do that if you're running too far ahead of your people.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Running, People

• Perhaps our greatest power in life is the power to choose. Without question, choices are the most determining factor in how our lives turn out.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Leadership, Choices

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.185, Thomas Nelson Inc

• Your goal as a leader isn't to be indispensable to the people you lead; it is to leave your people something that is indispensable to them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, People, Goal

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.248, Thomas Nelson Inc

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