John Calvin Maxwell (b.1947) is an author, speaker, and pastor who has written more than 60 books, primarily focusing on leadership. Titles include The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow. His books have sold more than nineteen million copies, with some on the New York Times Best Seller List.
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Growth inside fuels growth outside.
—John C. Maxwell
Leaders must live by higher standards than their followers.
—John C. Maxwell
Topics: Leadership
The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.
—John C. Maxwell
Topics: Growth
Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it – in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.
—John C. Maxwell
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
—John C. Maxwell
Topics: Growth, Mistakes
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
Topics: Leaders, Communication, Leadership
Life doesn’t do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.
—John C. Maxwell
Topics: Growth
Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.
—John C. Maxwell
Talk to people, not above them.
—John C. Maxwell
Topics: Communication
Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.
—John C. Maxwell
Once our minds are ‘tattooed’ with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.
—John C. Maxwell
Topics: Success
You must manage your thought life daily and then you can manage your life.
—John C. Maxwell
Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
—John C. Maxwell
It’s true that charisma can make a person stand out for a moment, but character sets a person apart for a lifetime.
—John C. Maxwell
Topics: Character
Image is what people think we are; integrity is what we really are.
—John C. Maxwell
Topics: Growth
Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.
—John C. Maxwell
You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.
—John C. Maxwell
Not everyone will become a great leader, but everyone can become a better leader.
—John C. Maxwell
Topics: Leadership
Most people who want to get ahead do it backward. They think, ‘I’ll get a bigger job, then I’ll learn how to be a leader. But showing leadership skill is how you get the bigger job in the first place. Leadership isn’t a position, it’s a process.
—John C. Maxwell
Learn to say ‘no’ to the good so you can say ‘yes’ to the best.
—John C. Maxwell
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
—John C. Maxwell
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