Top 500 John C. Maxwell Quotes (2023 Update)
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451. “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

452. “If you want to make a positive impact, no matter how far-reaching, start at home. Treat your family members like treasures.”

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

455. “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

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

— John C. Maxwell

457. “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

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

— John C. Maxwell

459. “A Chinese proverb says, “Those who drink the water must remember those who dug the well.” Gratitude is one of the most attractive of all personal attributes;.”

— John C. Maxwell

460. “If you are a leader, the true measure of your success is not getting people to work. It’s not getting people to work hard. It is getting people to work hard together. That takes commitment.”

— John C. Maxwell

461. “Mentally strong people are comfortable in their own skin.”

— John C. Maxwell

462. “Manipulation is moving together for my advantage. Motivation is moving together for mutual advantage.”

— John C. Maxwell

463. “The timing of your decision is just as important as the decision you make.”

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

467. “While personal maturity may mean being able to see beyond yourself, leadership maturity means considering others before yourself.”

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

469. “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

470. “It’s good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don’t step out of your gift zone.”

— John C. Maxwell

471. “Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don’t know they possess.”

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

479. “The success of a vision is determined by its ownership by both the leader and the people.”

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

481. “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

482. “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

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

— John C. Maxwell

484. “Leaders attract potential leaders.”

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

488. “People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.”

— John C. Maxwell

489. “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

490. “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

491. “The first order of things to be changed is me, the leader. After I consider how hard it is to change myself, then I will understand the challenge of trying to change others. This is the ultimate test of leadership.”

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

494. “No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don’t hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development. The only way to get to the next level is focus.”

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

496. “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

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

— John C. Maxwell

498. “Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.”

— John C. Maxwell

499. “A good leader encourages followers to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to hear.”

— John C. Maxwell

500. “Every person has seeds of greatness within, even though they may currently be dormant.”

— John C. Maxwell