Quotes from John Maxwell

Speak up TODAY and say something positive. Even a tombstone will say something good about people when they are dead.

General Douglas MacArthur said, "Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals.… You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

When some people begin to work with others on their development, they often gravitate to weaknesses rather than strengths. Maybe that's because it's so easy to see others' problems and shortcomings. But if you start by putting your energies into correcting people's weaknesses, you will demoralize them and unintentionally sabotage the enlarging process.

3. People buy into the leader before they buy into the plan.

we are today where our thoughts have brought us, and we will go tomorrow where our thoughts take us.

Preparation may not guarantee a win, but it sure puts you in position for one.

The very moment that you make the shift to finding your purpose, growing to your potential, and helping others, successful is something you are right now, not something you vaguely hope one day to be.

No matter what you teach the child, he insists on behaving like his parents.

What you believe identifies who you are.

I believed that if you have the heart to make a difference, there is always an answer, but if you have a heart of indifference, there is never an answer.

A TABLE: FEW TO MANY—IT ENABLES GROWTH The birth of transformation starts in the heart of an individual, and the growth of the movement happens around a table. Mass movements don't begin with the masses. They begin with a few people. When people can sit around the table together as equal contributors, everyone wins.

THE DIFFERENCE THAT REALLY MAKES A DIFFERENCE