1,360 Quotes by John C. Maxwell

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. Many people who approach the area of vision in leadership have it backwards. They believe that if the cause is good enough, people will automatically buy in and follow. But that's not how leadership works. People don't follow worthy causes; they follow worthy leaders with a cause they can believe in. They buy into the leader first.

In a word, most bad attitudes are the result of selfishness.

Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent inside of them.

The road to success is long and up hill all the way

The best teacher for a leader is evaluated experience.

Everyone has the power to impact the outcome of his life. The way to do it is to focus on today. . . It is too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow.

One way to overcome our natural self-centeredness is to try to see things from other people's perspectives.

We were created for meaningful work, and one of life's greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done.

Hope is not strategy. Hope fits with vision, but we must have a strategy and a process to make our vision become a reality.