John C. Maxwell

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

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

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

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

Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything… even when you can not foresee the outcome.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Creativity is a consequence of action, not its motivation. Do what needs to be done and then ask whether it was possible.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: “I’m with you kid. Let’s go.”

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

Reading Proust isn’t just reading a book, it’s an experience and you can’t reject an experience.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.