John C. Maxwell

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

When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.

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

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

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it come to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is to get it.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Standing beneath this immense, bejeweled, star-spangled dome, breathing in its life, boundaries fall away, possibilities open up and my wings unfold. And I thought that you were the one who was the angel.

If no mistake have you made, yet losing you are … a different game you should play.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

The highest compact we can make with our fellow is – Let there be truth between us two forevermore.