Top 500 John C. Maxwell Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “Problems are not my problem. It’s not what happens to me but what happens in me that matters.”

— John C. Maxwell

352. “The higher you want to climb, the more you need leadership. The greater the impact you want to make, the greater your influence needs to be. Whatever you will accomplish is restricted by your ability to lead others.”

— John C. Maxwell

353. “Good attitudes among players do not guarantee a team’s success, but bad attitudes guarantee it’s failure.”

— John C. Maxwell

354. “One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.”

— John C. Maxwell

355. “If you think you are the entire picture, you will never see the big picture.”

— John C. Maxwell

356. “Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all.”

— John C. Maxwell

357. “Become a coach, not a king. A coach brings out the best in others, helping them to reach deep down inside and discover their potential. A king only gives commands.”

— John C. Maxwell

358. “Generally speaking, there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others.”

— John C. Maxwell

359. “A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.”

— John C. Maxwell

360. “The primary limitation in life is our low expectations for ourselves and others. When we expect minimum results, that’s usually what we get.”

— John C. Maxwell

361. “You are only an attitude away from success!”

— John C. Maxwell

362. “Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.”

— John C. Maxwell

363. “If you want to be a sharp thinker, be around sharp people.”

— John C. Maxwell

364. “Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.”

— John C. Maxwell

365. “If you can become the leader you ought to be on the inside, you will be able to become the person you want on the outside. People will want to follow you. And when that happens, you’ll be able to tackle anything in this world.”

— John C. Maxwell

366. “If we treat people as who they can become, they will be inspired to rise to the level of our expectations.”

— John C. Maxwell

367. “Your leadership skills determine the level of your success, and the success of those who work around you.”

— John C. Maxwell

368. “If you’re not failing, you’re probably not really moving forward.”

— John C. Maxwell

369. “A great idea is simply the combination of many good ideas.”

— John C. Maxwell

370. “All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others.”

— John C. Maxwell

371. “Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.”

— John C. Maxwell

372. “If you always do what you’ve always done, then you will always get what you’ve always gotten.”

— John C. Maxwell

373. “Business schools reward complex behavior but it’s the simple behavior that makes you successful in life.”

— John C. Maxwell

374. “Insecure leaders think everything is about them, and as a result, every action, every piece of information, every decision is put through their filter of self-centeredness.”

— John C. Maxwell

375. “The person who forgets the ultimate is a slave to the immediate.”

— John C. Maxwell

376. “The true test of relationships is not only how loyal someone is when we fail, but how thrilled they are when we succeed.”

— John C. Maxwell

377. “While we don’t always get what we want, we always get what we choose.”

— John C. Maxwell

378. “The happiest people are those who have harvested their time in others. The unhappiest people are those who wonder how the world is going to make them happy.”

— John C. Maxwell

379. “Leadership involves the heavy burden of responsibility, and the fear of getting it wrong can paralyze a leader.”

— John C. Maxwell

380. “If people around you don’t believe in you, if they don’t encourage you, then you need to find some people who do.”

— John C. Maxwell

381. “To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday’s hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can’t build a monument to past problems and fail forward.”

— John C. Maxwell

382. “Reflective thinking is like the crock pot of the mind. It encourages your thoughts to simmer until they’re done.”

— John C. Maxwell

383. “Without failure there is no achievement.”

— John C. Maxwell

384. “God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.”

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

386. “Not realizing what you want is a problem of knowledge. Not pursuing what you want is a problem of motivation. Not achieving what you want is a problem of persistence.”

— John C. Maxwell

387. “In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.”

— John C. Maxwell

388. “The best relationships are win-win. Why don’t more people go into relationships with that attitude?”

— John C. Maxwell

389. “Our days are like identical suitcases. Even though they are all the same size, some people are able to pack more into them then others. The reason? They know what to pack.”

— John C. Maxwell

390. “The leader’s Attitude is like a thermostat for the place she works. If her attitude is good, the atmosphere is pleasant, and the environment is easy to work in. But if her attitude is bad, the temperature is insufferable.”

— John C. Maxwell

391. “If everyone doesn’t pay the price to win, then everyone will pay the price of losing.”

— John C. Maxwell

392. “Failure is not fatal. Only failure to get back up is.”

— John C. Maxwell

393. “To Stay Focused in Life: You can’t know everyone You can’t do everything You can’t go everywhere We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.”

— John C. Maxwell

394. “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

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

— John C. Maxwell

396. “People who love life have charisma because they fill the room with positive energy.”

— John C. Maxwell

397. “All things being equal, attitude wins. All things not being equal, attitude sometimes still wins.”

— John C. Maxwell

398. “Leaders have two characteristics: first they are going somewhere, and second they are able to persuade other people to go with them.”

— John C. Maxwell

399. “People go farther than they thought they could when someone else thinks they can.”

— John C. Maxwell

400. “Discontent with the status quo is a great catalyst for vision.”

— John C. Maxwell