“When you are able to create a lonely place in the middle of your actions and concerns, your successes and failures slowly can lose some of their power over you.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“If you are willing to change your thinking, you can change your feelings.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“You are nothing unless it comes from your heart. Passion, caring, really looking to create excellence. If you perform functions only and go to work only to do processes, then you are effectively retired. And it scares me—most people I see, by age twenty-eight are retired.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“Maya Angelou observed you cant use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Sadly,too often creativity is smothered rather than nurtured. There has to be climate in which new ways of thinking,perceiving, questioning are encouraged.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“Speak up TODAY and say something positive. Even a tombstone will say something good about people when they are dead.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the LORD! 15“And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods”
―
John C. Maxwell
“You never really know something until you teach it to someone else.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“A leader is great, not because of his or her power, but because of his or her ability to empower others.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“The truth is that leadership opportunities are plentiful and within reach of most people.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“Connection provides the bridge between ‘this is how’ and ‘begin now.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“People with humility don’t think less of themselves; they just think of themselves less.”
―
John C. Maxwell
“We cannot choose how many years we will live, but we can choose how much life those years will have. We cannot control the beauty of our face, but we can control the expression on it. We cannot control life’s difficult moments, but we can choose to make life less difficult. We cannot control the negative atmosphere of the world, but we can control the atmosphere of our minds.”
―
John C. Maxwell
