Top 500 John C. Maxwell Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “A person who has a dream knows what he is willing to give up in order to go up.”

— John C. Maxwell

402. “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

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

— John C. Maxwell

404. “I can afford to take a risk in my life. Only the insecure cannot afford to risk failure. The secure can be honest about themselves. They can admit failure. They are able to seek help and try again. They can change.”

— John C. Maxwell

405. “Have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must start with sowing excellent thoughts.”

— John C. Maxwell

406. “No one stands taller in the climb to success than when he bends over to help up someone else.”

— John C. Maxwell

407. “We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves.”

— John C. Maxwell

408. “Everything you now do is something you have chosen to do. Some people don’t want to believe that. But if you’re over age twenty-one, your life is what you’re making of it. To change your life, you need to change your priorities.”

— John C. Maxwell

409. “When we trust God, He can make the ordinary extraordinary!”

— John C. Maxwell

410. “Success is choosing to enter the arena of action, determined to give yourself to the cause that will better humanity and last for eternity.”

— John C. Maxwell

411. “A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.”

— John C. Maxwell

412. “You cannot change your life until you change something you do every day.”

— John C. Maxwell

413. “You can’t be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.”

— John C. Maxwell

414. “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

415. “You win people’s hearts by helping them grow personally.”

— John C. Maxwell

416. “Don’t ever be impressed with goal setting. Be impressed with goal getting.”

— John C. Maxwell

417. “When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.”

— John C. Maxwell

418. “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

419. “You cannot buy or win happiness. You must choose it.”

— John C. Maxwell

420. “Every major difficulty you face in life is a fork in the road. You choose which track you will head down, toward breakdown or breakthrough.”

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

422. “If you are not moving forward, the world is passing you by.”

— John C. Maxwell

423. “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

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

— John C. Maxwell

425. “People will summarize your life in one sentence – Pick it now.”

— John C. Maxwell

426. “Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.”

— John C. Maxwell

427. “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

428. “Courage and initiative come when you understand your purpose in life.”

— John C. Maxwell

429. “Successful people don’t wait for everything to be perfect to move forward.”

— John C. Maxwell

430. “Your attitude is like the minds paintbrush. It can paint everything in bright, vibrant colors-creating a masterspiece.”

— John C. Maxwell

431. “As negative thoughts produce negative actions, so positive thoughts produce positive actions.”

— John C. Maxwell

432. “You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.”

— John C. Maxwell

433. “Look behind you: What have you learned? Look around you: What is happening to others? Look above you: What does God expect of you? Look besides you: What resources are available to you?”

— John C. Maxwell

434. “Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.”

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

437. “You have to know who you are to grow to your potential. But you have to grow in order to know who you are.”

— John C. Maxwell

438. “Stay focused instead of getting offended or off track by others.”

— John C. Maxwell

439. “When you believe in people, you motivate them and release their potential.”

— John C. Maxwell

440. “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

441. “Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them. Stop failing backward and start failing forward!”

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

444. “Our challenge is to think right in a wrong world. Our challenge is to think positive in a negative world.”

— John C. Maxwell

445. “Leadership is evoking in others the capacity to dream.”

— John C. Maxwell

446. “A lot of people believe they are successful because they have everything they want. They have added value to themselves. But I believe significance comes when you add value to others and you can’t have true success without significance.”

— John C. Maxwell

447. “A person who refuses to risk change fails to grow.”

— John C. Maxwell

448. “You’ll never know how close you are to a million-dollar idea unless you’re willing to listen.”

— John C. Maxwell

449. “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

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

— John C. Maxwell