The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potentia...
JOHN C. MAXWELL The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their dist...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person be...
JOHN C. MAXWELL As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is ...
JOHN C. MAXWELL A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate...
JOHN C. MAXWELL When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it's as if something bubbles up from within. Th...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person's life ...
JOHN C. MAXWELL If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what ...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.
JOHN C. MAXWELL The way President Abraham Lincoln is said to have handled a person who had a know-it-all attitude. L...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Don
JOHN C. MAXWELL Believing in people before they have proved themselves is the key to motivating people to reach thei...
JOHN C. MAXWELL People never care how much you know until they know how much you care.
JOHN C. MAXWELL We are approved by God, we don
JOHN C. MAXWELL Sometimes we hold on to our possessions because we fear we might run out - life seems scarce. But wh...
JOHN C. MAXWELL A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less th...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
JOHN C. MAXWELL People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only r...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and ...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.
JOHN C. MAXWELL All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.
JOHN C. MAXWELL If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who rec...
JOHN C. MAXWELL People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Everything rises and falls on leadership.
JOHN C. MAXWELL The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.
JOHN C. MAXWELL A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a ...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Leadership is influence.
JOHN C. MAXWELL A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
JOHN C. MAXWELL People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
JOHN C. MAXWELL A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something nobl...
JOHN C. MAXWELL The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
JOHN C. MAXWELL The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by disc...
JOHN C. MAXWELL In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don't have to be rich. You don't hav...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Without failure there is no achievement.
JOHN C. MAXWELL There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and sel...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, 'It's a Wonderful Life' tells a bea...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If y...
JOHN C. MAXWELL The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That'...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.
JOHN C. MAXWELL The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to fa...
JOHN C. MAXWELL The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That&...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless o...
JOHN C. MAXWELL A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough ...
JOHN C. MAXWELL To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one anot...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo's sculpture, riveted by Mariah C...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-...
JOHN C. MAXWELL For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each Decemb...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Yesterday ended last night.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.
JOHN C. MAXWELL To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated an...
JOHN C. MAXWELL A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enoug...
JOHN C. MAXWELL We are to get wisdom and understanding, yet we are not to lean on it apart from the Lord.
JOHN C. MAXWELL The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Competence goes beyond words. It's the leader's ability to say it, plan it, and do it in such a way ...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking proces...
JOHN C. MAXWELL I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my l...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Dont ever be impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and mov...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as t...
JOHN C. MAXWELL People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must gi...
JOHN C. MAXWELL It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Success is...
knowing your purpose in life,
growing to reach your maximum potential, and JOHN C. MAXWELL To Stay Focused in Life:

You can't know everyone
You can't do everything
You ca...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Poem by Howard A. Walter (Character)

I would be true, for there are those who trust me; JOHN C. MAXWELL We don't mature momentarily, but over the long-term.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Seven Steps to Success
1) Make a commitment to grow daily.
2) Value the process more than ...
JOHN C. MAXWELL We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.
JOHN C. MAXWELL One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usu...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relati...
JOHN C. MAXWELL There was a very cautious man
Who never laughed or played
He never risked, he never tried,...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.
JOHN C. MAXWELL If you can't influence people, then they will not follow you. And if people won't follow, you are no...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Great leaders always seem to embody two seemingly disparate qualities. They are both highly visionar...
JOHN C. MAXWELL First, when we are busy, we naturally believe that we are achieving. But busyness does not equal pro...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Leaders Who Attract Followers . . . Need to Be Needed
Leaders Who Develop Leaders . . . Want to...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Many people view leadership the same way they view success, hoping to go as far as they can, to clim...
JOHN C. MAXWELL You can't move people to action unless you first move them with emotion.... The heart comes before t...
JOHN C. MAXWELL People dont care what you know until they know what you care
JOHN C. MAXWELL Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desire...
JOHN C. MAXWELL The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about themselves, and small people talk about oth...
JOHN C. MAXWELL If you're lying, you're lying.
JOHN C. MAXWELL [The truth is,] we all have done something unethical, ... There's No Such Thing as Business Ethics.
JOHN C. MAXWELL if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot alw...
JOHN C. MAXWELL People's capacity to achieve is determined by their leader's ability to empower.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.
JOHN C. MAXWELL The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test y...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Three reasons problems are inevitable; first, we live in a world of growing complexity and diversity...
JOHN C. MAXWELL All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves an...
JOHN C. MAXWELL The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.
JOHN C. MAXWELL A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large e...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Most people don't like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage ...
JOHN C. MAXWELL You never really know something until you teach it to someone else.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Advice is what we ask for when we already knew the answer but wish we didn't.
JOHN C. MAXWELL How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.
JOHN C. MAXWELL When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.
JOHN C. MAXWELL As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.
JOHN C. MAXWELL When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with othe...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.
JOHN C. MAXWELL En Harvard y otras universidades, estudiaron la importancia de la actitud en el éxito de las person...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Life is now in session. Are you present?
JOHN C. MAXWELL Successful leaders are like icebergs. When you look at an iceberg, you see only about 10 percent of ...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Tend to the people, and they will tend to the business.
JOHN C. MAXWELL How do I fit in my area or department? • How do all the departments fit into the organization? •...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Keeping score is for games, not friendships.
JOHN C. MAXWELL If you want to reach the top, don't run over others. Likely, the only way you'll reach the t...
JOHN C. MAXWELL The first step to leadership is servanthood. -John Maxwell.
JOHN MAXWELL If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.
JOHN MAXWELL A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
JOHN MAXWELL She that fails to command her thoughts will soon lose command of her actions
JOHN MAXWELL The Tropicana is just not competitive anymore given the growth of Las Vegas.
JOHN MAXWELL The Depth of your Mythology is the Extent of your Effectiveness.
JOHN MAXWELL Most people who want to get ahead do it backward. They think, 'I'll get a bigger job, then I'll lear...
JOHN MAXWELL I'm very excited about rays and this project.
JOHN MAXWELL The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That'...
JOHN MAXWELL When I was editor (of the paper) we disagreed violently about certain things but he never interfered...
JOHN MAXWELL Prices will come down, ... There will be stability.
JOHN MAXWELL Most of them do not have access to outdoor activities, which you and I take for granted. In our firs...
JOHN MAXWELL A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a ...
JOHN MAXWELL Leadership determines the direction of the company. Organization determines the potential of the com...
JOHN MAXWELL Overall the company's numbers are compelling.
JOHN MAXWELL He was very quiet...he didn't make a fuss about himself. If he had survived when Michael Manley beca...
JOHN MAXWELL Our program is attuned in such a way that we intentionally want to provide positive male role models...
JOHN MAXWELL The law of the [Cub Scout] pack guides the boys to move in the direction of being helpful, friendly,...
JOHN MAXWELL She shows that the force has a lot of talent in it. It also shows that the police force is becoming ...
JOHN MAXWELL I told people they would be in for a bit of trouble, ... They had the meeting in September where the...
JOHN MAXWELL The last time price caps were imposed (in 1975) . . . it roiled the markets,
JOHN MAXWELL If you let the free market operate unchecked, prices will go down.
JOHN MAXWELL They walked into a very difficult situation and saw it through, making a lot of money.
JOHN MAXWELL The strength of any organization is a direct result of the strength of its leaders. Weak leaders equ...
JOHN MAXWELL Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish
JOHN MAXWELL People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.
JOHN MAXWELL We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.
JOHN MAXWELL As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behaviour. Begin to act the pa...
JOHN MAXWELL The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
JOHN MAXWELL Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.
JOHN MAXWELL Leadership is more ? if not much more ? influence, rather than position.
JOHN MAXWELL Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
JOHN MAXWELL Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
JOHN MAXWELL The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense?...
JAMES C. MAXWELL The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be...
JAMES C. MAXWELL In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the on...
JAMES C. MAXWELL Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as ye...
JAMES C. MAXWELL Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. ...
JAMES C. MAXWELL Ampere was the Newton of Electricity.
JAMES C. MAXWELL All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so...
JAMES C. MAXWELL I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.
JAMES C. MAXWELL There is a supernal intelligence behind sexual arousal, the true purpose of which is to create for u...
JOHN MAXWELL TAYLOR The Times-Picayune continued to operate on the World Wide Web, and WWL-TV continued to broadcast eve...
JOHN MAXWELL HAMILTON When we practice sacred sexuality we are working with cosmologically rooted principles, balancing th...
JOHN MAXWELL TAYLOR Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.
MAXWELL I will say to all the fellas out there that, seriously, I am a setup. I'm just like rose petals....
MAXWELL I love my last-minute lifestyle because I just sort of don't have plans, and things kind of happ...
MAXWELL Most of the people you see me working for me are actually with me. And I'm proud to say that I&#...
MAXWELL So many times, people want you to stay the way you were, be as you were before because they want to ...
MAXWELL I remember where I'm from. It's like, 'Dude, you used to work at Pizza Hut.' I still...
MAXWELL I'm really maturing into soul music. It's not my attempt or karaoke try. I feel like I reall...
MAXWELL I just turned 40, and I look at so many performers and so many people who are actually always on tim...
MAXWELL A lot of people thought my career was over. If you're not releasing records, then something must...
MAXWELL Soul music is soul music. It can be wrapped up in a neo soul package; it can be called hip-hop soul....
MAXWELL The cost of competing on the Strip has gone up. A billion dollars certainly doesn't get you a top-ti...
JOHN MAXWELL (FINANCIAL ANALYST) None but a people advanced to a high state of moral and intellectual excellence are capable in a civ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Kanan is a big road through the Santa Monica Mountains. Between mid-March and mid-April, when you ge...
JOHN C. MCGINLEY What people can excel our Northern and New England brethren in skill, invention, activity, energy, p...
JOHN C. CALHOUN I know I'm not some matinee idol, but I think we're sold this bill of goods by the media, wh...
JOHN C. REILLY I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they're auditioning, because their terror calms me.
JOHN C. MCGINLEY My wife organized the Jewish Women's Caucus boycott of Moses.. wait.. ! I am receiving a correction ...
JOHN C LEHMAN Many have screwed the truth, but few have called her the next day.
JOHN C LEHMAN My son walked up to Nicole on the beach and I was throwing the ball for the dogs in the ocean. I was...
JOHN C. MCGINLEY I built a baseball field in the lower part of our property and I'm always working on that. I got...
JOHN C. MCGINLEY The problem for a lot of people is that they don't really know what they want. They have vague desir...
JOHN C. PARKIN It is time that financial types developed a greater tolerance for imprecision, because that?s the wa...
JOHN C. BURTON I will tell each person what I have told others in the past
JOHN C. METZLER Many veterans dream of being buried here. These grounds speak of dignity and respect, and the magnit...
JOHN C. METZLER I never know what South Carolina thinks of a measure. I never consult her. I act to the best of my j...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Our well-founded claim, grounded on continuity, has greatly strengthened, during the same period, by...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.
JOHN C. LILLY In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
JOHN C. LILLY If you don't have a policeman to stop traffic and let you walk across the street like you are somebo...
JOHN C. WHITE