Top 500 John C. Maxwell Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “If you want to make your mother happy, talk to her. If you want to make your father happy, listen.”

— John C. Maxwell

452. “The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.”

— John C. Maxwell

453. “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

454. “If you believe in others and give them a positive reputation to uphold, you can help them to become better than they think they are.”

— John C. Maxwell

455. “Attitude: It is our best friend or our worst enemy.”

— John C. Maxwell

456. “Never allow others to put obstacles in the pathway of your dreams.”

— John C. Maxwell

457. “The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.”

— John C. Maxwell

458. “People naturally follow leaders stronger than themselves.”

— John C. Maxwell

459. “One person seeking glory doesn’t accomplish much. Success is the result of people pulling together to meet common goals.”

— John C. Maxwell

460. “Commitment comes as a result of choice, not conditions.”

— John C. Maxwell

461. “Discipline – Success doesn’t just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline.”

— John C. Maxwell

462. “People’s purpose in life is always connected to their giftedness.”

— John C. Maxwell

463. “When your great players are team players, everybody else follows their lead. The best team doesn’t always win – it’s usually the team that gets along best.”

— John C. Maxwell

464. “Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.”

— John C. Maxwell

465. “Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.”

— John C. Maxwell

466. “Make a point to continually search for a better way of doing things, even when things are going well, to ensure that a better alternative has not been overlooked and to keep your creative talents in practice.”

— John C. Maxwell

467. “A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large extent, by your habits.”

— John C. Maxwell

468. “The best place for a leader isn’t always at the top position. It is the place where they can serve the best and add the most value to other people.”

— John C. Maxwell

469. “A leader who develops people adds; a leader who develops leaders multiplies.”

— John C. Maxwell

470. “Since an attitude is often expressed by our body language and by the looks on our faces, it can be contagious.”

— John C. Maxwell

471. “For leaders to be effective, they need to connect with people.”

— John C. Maxwell

472. “The secret of successful people lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.”

— John C. Maxwell

473. “The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.”

— John C. Maxwell

474. “An attitude’s growth never stops.”

— John C. Maxwell

475. “As you interact with others, remember this: anytime a person’s response is larger than the issue at hand, the response is almost always about something else.”

— John C. Maxwell

476. “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

477. “In most cases, those who want power probably shouldn’t have it, those who enjoy it probably do so for the wrong reasons, and those who want most to hold on to it don’t understand that it’s only temporary.”

— John C. Maxwell

478. “The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once.”

— John C. Maxwell

479. “The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.”

— John C. Maxwell

480. “If you aren’t making any mistakes, it’s a sure sign you’re playing it too safe.”

— John C. Maxwell

481. “Be the most enthusiastic person you know.”

— John C. Maxwell

482. “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

483. “Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn’t do when you should have.”

— John C. Maxwell

484. “Your attitude is a choice.”

— John C. Maxwell

485. “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.” That may be true. But it’s also true that you can feed a horse salt and make him thirsty.”

— John C. Maxwell

486. “You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.”

— John C. Maxwell

487. “Birds of a feather really do flock together.”

— John C. Maxwell

488. “Adversity is prosperity to those who possess a great attitude.”

— John C. Maxwell

489. “The effectiveness of your work will never rise above your ability to lead and influence others.”

— John C. Maxwell

490. “Every new level of growth we hope to experience as leaders calls for a new level of change. You cannot have one without the other. If you want to be a better leader, get ready to make some trades.”

— John C. Maxwell

491. “Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.”

— John C. Maxwell

492. “Change the leader, change the organization.”

— John C. Maxwell

493. “If you are too attached to your own thinking and how everything is done now, then nothing will change for the better.”

— John C. Maxwell

494. “Leaders attract potential leaders.”

— John C. Maxwell

495. “The reality is that you will never get much done unless you go ahead and do it before you are ready.”

— John C. Maxwell

496. “Creativity requires the willingness to look stupid.”

— John C. Maxwell

497. “People are never able to outperform their self-image.”

— John C. Maxwell

498. “People may teach what they know, but they reproduce what they are.”

— John C. Maxwell

499. “Change means traveling in uncharted waters and this causes our securities to rise.”

— John C. Maxwell

500. “Effective leaders sacrifice much that is good in order to dedicate themselves to what is best.”

— John C. Maxwell