1,360 Quotes by John C. Maxwell

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.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about themselves, and small people talk about others

If you're proactive, you focus on preparing. If you're reactive, you end up focusing on repairing.

Few things build a person up like affirmation. According to Webster’s New World Dictionary, Third College Edition (Simon and Schuster, 1991),the word affirm comes from ad firmare, which means “to make firm.” So when you affirm people, you make firm within them the things you see about them. Do that often enough, and the belief that solidifies within them will become stronger than the doubts they have about themselves.

If you wouldn't follow yourself, why should anyone else?

Nothing's work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

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

The way President Abraham Lincoln is said to have handled a person who had a know-it-all attitude. Lincoln asked, “How many legs will a sheep have if you call a tail a leg?” “Five,” the man answered.“No,” replied Lincoln, “he’ll still have four, because calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it one.

You never really know something until you teach it to someone else.