John C. Maxwell

The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth.

The best leaders are humble enough to realize their victories depend upon their people.

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

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.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Every great movement must experience three stages ridicule, discussion, adoption.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it’s hip not to be married. I’m not interested in being hip.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.

If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality.

The only way to know is to live, learn, and grow.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.