Top 500 John C. Maxwell Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Nothing of significance was ever achieved by an individual acting alone. Look below the surface and you will find that all seemingly solo acts are really team efforts.”

— John C. Maxwell

102. “People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.”

— John C. Maxwell

103. “Becoming a good listener, you are able to connect with others on more levels and develop stronger, deeper relationships.”

— John C. Maxwell

104. “If your habits don’t line up with your dream, then you need to either change your habits or change your dream.”

— John C. Maxwell

105. “True success is obeying God.”

— John C. Maxwell

106. “Don’t worry about yesterday it ended last night at midnight.”

— John C. Maxwell

107. “Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation for success.”

— John C. Maxwell

108. “If you don’t try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get.”

— John C. Maxwell

109. “The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it.”

— John C. Maxwell

110. “Great leaders understand that the right attitude will set the right atmosphere, which enables the right response from others.”

— John C. Maxwell

111. “The value you receive from reflective thinking will depend on the kinds of questions you ask yourself.”

— John C. Maxwell

112. “The road to success is long and up hill all the way.”

— John C. Maxwell

113. “Why worry about things you can’t control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?”

— John C. Maxwell

114. “Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.”

— John C. Maxwell

115. “Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership.”

— John C. Maxwell

116. “Want to impress others? Talk about your successes. Want to impact others? Talk about your failures.”

— John C. Maxwell

117. “The ability to understand people is one of the greatest assets anyone can ever have.”

— John C. Maxwell

118. “A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.”

— John C. Maxwell

119. “One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.”

— John C. Maxwell

120. “I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.”

— John C. Maxwell

121. “The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.”

— John C. Maxwell

122. “Successful people are willing to do things unsuccessful people will not do.”

— John C. Maxwell

123. “Leadership is the power of one harnessing the power of many.”

— John C. Maxwell

124. “When you nurture people and add value to them without expecting anything in return, they feel significant.”

— John C. Maxwell

125. “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

126. “Successful people reject rejection.”

— John C. Maxwell

127. “Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.”

— John C. Maxwell

128. “Be a river – not a reservoir.”

— John C. Maxwell

129. “Make personal growth a daily priority.”

— John C. Maxwell

130. “It takes a team to do anything of lasting value.”

— John C. Maxwell

131. “Earn the right to be heard by listening to others. Seek to understand a situation before making judgments about it.”

— John C. Maxwell

132. “Vision without passion is a picture without possibilities.”

— John C. Maxwell

133. “Always turn to God in the midst of your struggle and view people who offended you as an instruments of divine sovereignty.”

— John C. Maxwell

134. “If you can learn to understand people how they think, what they feel, what inspires them, how they’re likely to act and react in a given situation- then you can motivate and influence them in a positive way.”

— John C. Maxwell

135. “Leading well is not about enriching yourself – it’s about empowering others.”

— John C. Maxwell

136. “If you focus on goals, you may hit goals – but that doesn’t guarantee growth. If you focus on growth, you will grow and always hit goals.”

— John C. Maxwell

137. “The difference between where we are and where we want to be is created by the changes we are willing to make in our lives. When you want something you’ve never had, you must do something you’ve never done to get it.”

— John C. Maxwell

138. “You can change your life if you really want to. You can improve it, make it better. And it all starts with changing the way you think.”

— John C. Maxwell

139. “Coming together is a beginning, and staying together is progress, but only when teams sweat together do they find success.”

— John C. Maxwell

140. “Problems almost always create opportunities – to learn, grow and improve.”

— John C. Maxwell

141. “If you're a leader, do everything you can to grow yourself and create the right environment for others to grow.”

— John C. Maxwell

142. “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”

— John C. Maxwell

143. “The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.”

— John C. Maxwell

144. “Actions are remembered long after words are forgotten.”

— John C. Maxwell

145. “Leadership is influence. It is the ability to obtain followers. When the leader lacks confidence, the followers have no commitment. A leader is great not because of his power, but because of his ability to empower others.”

— John C. Maxwell

146. “You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.”

— John C. Maxwell

147. “Making a difference in your work is not about productivity; it’s about people. When you focus on others and connect with them, you can work together to accomplish great things.”

— John C. Maxwell

148. “You cannot enjoy others until you enjoy yourself because you cannot give to others what you do not have.”

— John C. Maxwell

149. “Connecting is the ability to identify with people and relate to them in a way that increases your influence with them.”

— John C. Maxwell

150. “It’s lonely at the top, so you better know why you are there.”

— John C. Maxwell