1,360 Quotes by John C. Maxwell

When you realize that people treat you according to how they see themselves rather than how you really are, you are less likely to be affected by their behavior.

Those closest to me will determine the level of my success.

I really didn't settle stuff spiritually until I was 17 years of age. But through my teenage years I just knew that someday I had to settle accounts and get things straightened up and move in that direction.

My leadership began to take flight when I allowed myself to press people to change-whether they thanked me or cursed me.

The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.

Leadership is the readiness to stand out in a crowd.

Leaders need to remember that the point of leading is not to cross the finish line first. It's to take people across the finish line with you. For that reason, leaders must deliberately slow their pace, stay connected to their people, enlist others to help fulfill the vision, and keep people going. You can't do that if you're running too far ahead of your people.

If you want to help others and become a person of influence, keep smiling, sharing, giving, and turning the other cheek.

The more people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.