Quotes from John Maxwell

GIVE JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME, EFFORT, AND PATIENCE TO A DIFFICULT TASK OR PROBLEM TODAY.

The mind will not focus until it has clear objectives. But the purpose of goals is to focus your attention and give you direction, not to identify a final destination.

To be successful is to be helpful, caring, and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better. The best thing you have to give is yourself." If

Lazy people don't succeed.

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who left well enough alone.

The only person who avoids failure altogether is the person who never leaves her driveway. So the real issue is not whether you're going to fail. It's whether you're going to fail successfully (profiting from your failure).

Until my practice period was completed, I deliberately neglected everything else. That program of planned neglect, I believe, accounts for my success.

A leader is great, not because of his or her power, but because of his or her ability to empower others. Success without a successor is failure. A worker's main responsibility is developing others to do the work.

Author and conference speaker Richard Exley explained his idea of friendship this way: "A true friend is one who hears and understands when you share your deepest feelings. He supports you when you are struggling; he corrects you, gently and with love, when you err; and he forgives you when you fail. A true friend prods you to personal growth, stretches you to your full potential. And most amazing of all, he celebrates your successes as if they were his own.

That grumpy woman didn't deserve to be treated kindly. But when she was treated not as she was, but as I wanted her to be and believed she could become, her perspective suddenly changed.

However, as a leader, if you can add results to relationships and develop a team of people who like each other and get things done, you have created a powerful combination.

An infant is born with a clenched fist; a man dies with an open hand. Life has a way of prying free the things we think are so important.