Top 500 John C. Maxwell Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person’s mood and attitude.”

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

453. “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

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

— John C. Maxwell

455. “For the person trying to do everything alone, the game really is over. If you want to do something big, you must link up with others. One is too small a number to achieve greatness. That’s the Law of Significance.”

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

457. “Conflict is like cancer; early detection increases the possibility of a healthy outcome.”

— John C. Maxwell

458. “Dependable teams members possess the desire to do the things they are capable of doing.”

— John C. Maxwell

459. “If you treat every person you meet as if he or she were the most important person in the world, you’ll communicate that he or she is somebody – to you.”

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

462. “A leader can give up anything – except final responsibility.”

— John C. Maxwell

463. “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

464. “If you are leading others and you’re lonely, then you’re not doing it right. Think about it. If you’re all alone, that means nobody is following you. And if nobody is following you, you’re not really leading!”

— John C. Maxwell

465. “If you want to make your mother happy, talk to her. If you want to make your father happy, listen.”

— John C. Maxwell

466. “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

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

471. “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

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

475. “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

476. “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

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

— John C. Maxwell

478. “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

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

— John C. Maxwell

480. “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

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

— John C. Maxwell

482. “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

483. “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

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

488. “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

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

— John C. Maxwell

490. “Your attitude is a choice.”

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

494. “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

495. “It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.”

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

498. “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

499. “Leaders attract potential leaders.”

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell