Quotes from John Maxwell

You can think the world of others, but if you never actually tell them, then you don't really help them.

If you are willing to make success about giving rather than gaining, you will find your life to be greatly rewarding.

Bad attitudes must be addressed. You can be sure that they will always cause dissension, resentment, combativeness, and division on a team.

How do you cultivate optimism? By learning the secret of contentment. If you can learn that, then no matter what happens to you, you can weather the storm and build on the good you find in any situation.

Life is a series of outcomes. Sometimes the outcome is what you want. Great. Figure out what you did right. Sometimes the outcome is what you don't want. Great. Figure out what you did so you don't do it again.

You will be able to reach your potential and help your organization reach its loftiest goals only if you begin developing leaders instead of merely attracting followers. Leaders who develop leaders experience an incredible multiplication effect in their organizations that can be achieved in no other way.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

Maturity doesn't come with age. It begins with the acceptance of responsibility.

Isn't it strange how we must surrender being right in order to find what's right, how humility enables us to be authentic, vulnerable, trustworthy, and intimate with others? People are open to those who are open to them.

The Pareto Principle 20 percent of your priorities will give you 80 percent of your production IF you spend your time, energy, money, and personnel on the top 20 percent of your priorities.

You can't help people become winners unless they want to win. Champions become champions from within, not from without.