John C. Maxwell Quotes

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

I try to develop others. I get a great deal of joy out of helping people who, over the years, I've spent a lot of time mentoring - and just trying to get them to another level.

My role is to coach, encourage, inspire, motivate, and help people.

You can only mentor somebody if they want to be.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

I have been tremendously impacted and influenced by my coaches. It's nice to play for people that are going to support you.

All of us are mentors. You're mentors right here and now. And one of the things I've always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

I am there for the athletes I coach.

The reason you get into coaching in the first place is to help and develop, try to make people better.

A leader is a coach, not a judge.

A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.

Mentorship is the key to extraordinary success.

Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart.

Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

I'm a mentor to anybody who's interested.

Transformed people transform people.

I don't mind sacrifice. I don't mind discipline. But a good coach allows people to blossom. I've seen that. I didn't have it.

A leader's job is not to do the work for others, it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.

I had the benefit of being guided by Lew Wasserman. I think part of being a mentor is you have to have confidence in the people you're guiding and mentoring.

I fell in love with coaching. I loved interacting with young people, having the opportunity to make a tremendous impression on them.