John C. Maxwell

If you wouldn’t follow yourself, why should anyone else?

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Success is…knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Leaders who are effective are leaders who are disciplined in their daily lives.

A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know, I’ve done it a thousand times.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.

If we want maturity, we have to be mature. If we want a nation that feels hopeful, then we have to speak in hopeful terms… We have to model what we want.

Don’t do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.