John C. Maxwell Quotes

You change your life by changing your heart.

The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

Your emotional reactions to the evil you encounter and your judgments of it show you what you need to change in yourself. Changing those parts of your personality that judge, react in fear, and cannot love into acceptance, fearlessness, and love is the journey you were born to make.

Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.

We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.

Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect.

I'm always asking people to do something in their mind [first]. So if they're gonna do one exercise, it would be to ask themselves what they want to change about themselves in the next 12 weeks. Once they solve that, the body will follow.

The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.

The change we are looking for is always a change within ourselves. And the change will come. I've noticed that as long as I'm willing to be different, something or someone arrives to show me how.

Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get that chance.

The world "out there" won't change until the world "in here" does.

A change in external circumstances without inner renewal is a materialist's illusion, as though man were only a product of his social circumstance and nothing else.

Self-sabotage is the proverbial hammer over the head that finally wakes us up, demanding that we pay attention. For most of us, it takes something devastating to crack us open, to get us out of our minds and into our hearts.

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

I've learned so much as both a writer and a human.

Anyway, I believe you don't fix the inside by putting something on the outside.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

I prefer stories about people who are, in a sense, trying to find better versions of themselves.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.