John C. Maxwell

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others.

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

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

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

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

I was determined to succeed in what I loved to do. I wasn’t going to let my disability stand in my way.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

I don’t cheat to win, I’d rather lose.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

To be successful in the world of entrepreneurs, especially in the early stages, a person must learn to fail, correct, learn, apply what was learned, and fail again.

Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can it make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and indomitably secure with the certainty that this is the way life will always be? It can and it does!

One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people-I categorize them as life’s losers-who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I’m concerned, if they had any real ability they wouldn’t be fighting me, they’d be doing something constructive themselves.

A minute of success pays for years of failure.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

Success is not all about money. It’s about having the resources and the ability to live the life that you have personally dreamed of.

Success isn’t about how your life looks to others. It’s about how it feels to you. We realized that being successful isn’t about being impressive, it’s about being inspired. That’s what it means to be true to yourself.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

It was just inconceivable to me I couldn’t win it all.

Keys to success: Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.

In the end, you’re measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.