John C. Maxwell Quotes

For many many years, I've taught, not only leadership, but I've taught people that they need a personal growth plan. Growth is not an automatic process for you or me or anybody.

Getting to know myself changed everything. It's the best thing I've ever done.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

I believe that I have such a vanilla life. But maybe I come with a different perspective. I'm always trying to improve myself.

More than once in the history of Whole Foods Market, the company was unable to collectively evolve until I myself was able to evolve - in other words, I was holding the company back. My personal growth enabled the company to evolve.

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.

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

The key is that I'm trying to keep growing and trying to keep learning and deepen my connection in every way, in my life, in my work. That's what I do when I look at a role.

You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.

I have definitely had a big impactful change since 2010, and it's rough to look in the mirror, but it's such an important thing to do that.

All I've ever wanted is to improve myself and become the best, which is the reason I joined Real in the first place.

You need to be comfortable with yourself first and then decide what you want to achieve.

It wasn't until I began to work on my inner life and know myself that my life changed. Success really does begin within. The size and quality of your outer life is only limited by the size and quality of your inner life.

As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself.

That the potential to become Level 5 exists in you and me and the people we work with and that it is then a process or a journey to nurture that seed... in a culture by and large that doesn't reinforce it.

You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don't want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?'

I did find my direction at an early age.

I know the person I am, and I know the person I can be.

I'm always consciously trying to make what I feel is missing.

It's important for a leader to hear about his blind spots on a regular basis so working on them is periodically top of mind.

I think you just learn so much about yourself over the years.

My goal is not necessarily to be an inspiration. I think, if anything, I want to continue to be inspired and to continue to grow as a person.

All of us are looking for an outside ordeal that will internally change us.

We all want to not repeat ourselves constantly, and explore the limits of our capabilities.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.