John C. Maxwell

Our days are like identical suitcases. Even though they are all the same size, some people are able to pack more into them then others. The reason? They know what to pack.

Find something you like to do so much that you would gladly do it for nothing; then learn to do it so well that people are happy to pay you for it.

What I had been taught all my life was not true: experience is not the best teacher! Some people learn and grow as a result of their experience; some people don't. Everybody has some kind of experience. It's what you do with that experience that matters.

So think long and hard about who you're spending the most time with, for wherever they are headed, so are you.

Not everyone will become a great leader, but everyone can become a better leader.

Relationships are the foundation of leadership.

Discontent with the status quo is a great catalyst for vision.

We all stand on the shoulders of the past generation.

You have to know who you are to grow to your potential. But you have to grow in order to know who you are.

To succeed in life, we must stay within our strength zone but continually move outside our comfort zone.

Successful people do what is right no matter how they feel, and by doing right, they feel good.

If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.

Failure is not fatal. Only failure to get back up is.

The primary limitation in life is our low expectations for ourselves and others. When we expect minimum results, that's usually what we get.

My leadership began to take flight when I allowed myself to press people to change-whether they thanked me or cursed me.

A highly credible leader under-promises and over-delivers.

Over time, is it easier or harder to sustain your influence within your organization? With charisma alone, influence becomes increasingly more difficult to sustain. With character, as time passes, influence builds and requires less work to sustain.

Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership.

People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances. If they make enough good choices, they begin to create better conditions for themselves.

People are funny. When they are young, they will spend their health to get wealth. Later, they will gladly pay all they have trying to get their health back.

People may teach what they know, but they reproduce what they are.