1,360 Quotes by John C. Maxwell

Learn to say ‘no’ to the good so you can say ‘yes’ to the best.

No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don’t hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development. The only way to get to the next level is focus.

So think long and hard about who you’re spending the most time with, for wherever they are headed, so are you.

The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying.

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve, you have to win the war in your thinking first. You can’t let the failure outside you get inside you.

Successful people don’t have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.

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

I believe that everyone chooses how to approach life. If you’re proactive, you focus on preparing. If you’re reactive, you end up focusing on repairing.

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