John C. Maxwell Quotes

While it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday.

Today I no longer need to change the world around me. I just need to change the way I see it.

The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.

It's how you view the life inside you that creates the life outside of you. Everyday.

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

My methods produce lasting behavioral change without unpleasant consequences, because the change does not come from an effort of will. It comes from examining your deep-rooted beliefs of who you are and how the world functions. As you examine these beliefs and make changes in them, you literally become a different person.

Improvement begins with I.

The world is what you think of it. So think of it differently, and your life will change.

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

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

I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

You change your life by changing your heart.

As a life coach, I love makeovers, from new clothes to surgery, pedicures to highlights. But redoing makes you feel better only if approached with the right attitude.

I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.

A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

Changing your perspectives will not only transform you but also the whole world.

My moms always told me, 'How long you gonna play the victim?' I can say I'm mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.

Your inner world reflects your outer world.

The world is a reflection of who we are and if we don't like the reflection, it doesn't really help to break the mirror.