“One day when the Raiders were in Oakland, a reporter visited their locker room to talk to Ken Stabler. Stabler really wasn’t known as an intellectual, but he was a good quarterback. This newspaperman read him some English prose: “I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than that it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy, impermanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.” After reading this to the quarterback, the reporter asked, “What does this mean to you?” Stabler immediately replied, “Throw deep.” Go after it. Go out to win in life.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“If you can't influence people, then they will not follow you. And if people won't follow, you are not a leader. That's the Law of Influence.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“Advice is what we ask for when we already knew the answer but wish we didn't.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“Connecting has a lot to do with letting who you are influence everything you do.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“Leadership is more disposition than position—influence others from wherever you are.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow
―
John C. Maxwell
“If you wouldn't follow yourself, why should anyone else?”
―
John C. Maxwell
“Every successful person is someone who failed, yet never regarded himself as a failure.”
―
John C. Maxwell
