John C. Maxwell Quotes

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with status quo. Because in your head, you can see a better future. The friction between 'what is' and 'what could be' burns you, stirs you up, propels you. This is leadership.

Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.

Don't be content with things as they are.

The price of doing the same old thing is higher than the price of change.

… discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.

Leadership is always about change: it's not about mobilising people to do what they've always done well to continue to do it well.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.

I am and always will be a catalyst for change.

I hope the day will never come when the American nation will be the champion of the status quo. Once that happens, we shall have forfeited, and rightly forfeited, the support of the unsatisfied, of those who are the victims of inevitable imperfections, of those who, young in years or spirit, believe that they can make a better world and of those who dream dreams and want to make their dreams to come true.

Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.

Discontent is the catalyst for change.

it is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.

Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.

There is an inexorable correlation between leadership and change.

We have to evolve, we have to change, and in order to do that, we have to initiate the change.

Progress only happens with change, and people love something different.

I'm never satisfied with status quo, and a desire to make a difference is what drives me.

Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.

So many of us don't know what we want; we just know we don't want what we have. We spend 99% of the time talking about how bad it is, but only 1% of the time talking about how we can do something about it.

What is now commonplace was once not, and I think that's a testament to what it means to really break the mold and push the limits.