John C. Maxwell Quotes

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative - don't wait for someone else to ask you to act.

Probably I'll not be so successful if I will keep everything in myself inside of me.

Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.

Instead of me telling them what they need to work on, I wanted to hear from them what they needed to work on.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.

I'm now so keenly aware that I have everything to prove and nothing to lose.

I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.

You have to work on your own thing. You have to work on yourself, and you have to bring something to the game.

I think with 'Claws,' it came at such a perfect time where I really started to focus and to take myself seriously.

When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men.

One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential.

Thinking of someone else is what got me damned. It’s a mistake I don’t want to repeat. (Xypher) You know sometimes it’s by repeating our mistakes that we realize what went wrong the first time. Knowing that, we’re able to fix the mistake and move past it. (Acheron)

I like to sit on things and digest them and then I'll figure out my next move, but I never said I was right for doing anything.

Knowledge is not the same as morality, but we need to understand if we are to avoid past mistakes and move in productive directions. An important part of that understanding is knowing who we are and what we can do... Ultimately, we must synthesize our understandings for ourselves.

I can say that I am only human and I have made mistakes. I can say that I try to live my life in the most true, honest way that I can. I am not perfect, no one is. No one is harder on me than me. No one can please everyone. No one can live in the past and expect to grow. I have been moving forward and hope that I am not defined by just a few moments in my life but all of the moments that will make up my life.

Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.

I'd be worried about myself as a human if I hadn't been nervous.

There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices...But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. Do you remember that I told you that at Spence?

Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward - get real with yourself.

Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits.

I sometimes give myself excellent advice. Occasionally, I even listen to it.

As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.

We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.