John C. Maxwell Quotes

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one.

If you concern yourself with your neighbor’s talents, you’ll neglect your own. But if you concern yourself with yours, you could inspire both!

Let every man or woman here remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

I feel like if I show people how good I'm doing with myself, then it'll bring people to want me to manage them as well.

You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.

Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. We can talk about sales growth, profit growth, asset growth, but all of this probably will not happen without personal growth.

It is not making better people of others that management is about. It's about making a better person of self. Income, power, and titles have nothing to do with that.

Let each person in relationship worry about Self-what Self is being, doing, and having; what Self is wanting, asking, giving; what Self is seeking, creating, experiencing, and all relationships would magnificently serve their purpose-and their participants!

In order to help people, you have to first learn how to help yourself.

You can't really help people until you've helped yourself first.

Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development.

If you have nothing to do, look at yourself and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve. It may make you wealthy, although it is more likely it will make you happy.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.

Obviously, the goal is to maximize my own potential, whatever that may be. That's all I focus on.

Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Women need to think about where they've been, where they are, where they're going, and how they're going to get there.

I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability.

Before you can lead anybody else, you gotta put yourself in the right position to be successful.

There was a time before my O-levels when I remember thinking I used to study hard and work hard to please my mother, like most young children. And then I realised I'm doing this for me.

It's been important for me to realize that, in every experience, I feel like I can learn something, grow and get stronger.

Everything you do tends to make you accomplish another step on the road to complete yourself.