John C. Maxwell Quotes

People discover that by helping others, even when they themselves are suffering, they end up improving their own lives.

You may find that making a difference for others makes the biggest difference in you.

To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another's life.

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

When you serve others, when you make somebody else’s life better, when you lift up people, when you help heal those that are hurting, not only are they being blessed, but you’re being blessed.

The more I help out, the more successful I become. But I measure success in what it has done for the people around me. That is the real accolade.

Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.

Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by-product.

The greatest rewards come when you give of yourself. It's about bettering the lives of others, being part of something bigger than yourself, and making a positive difference.

Be more concerned with what you can do for others than what others can do for you. You’ll be surprised at the results.

Take time to make a difference. Don't just obsess about how you can make your life better. Think about how you can make somebody else's life better as well.

The way to feel better about your own situation is to improve someone else’s circumstances.

The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people. That's the biggest thing to think about if you're not happy.

I've done no harm to no one. In fact, I think I've improved the world.

I hope that what I am today is of positive benefit to other people.

That's the beauty of coaching. You get to touch lives, you get to make a difference. You get to do things for people who will never pay you back and they say you never have had a perfect day until you've done something for someone who will never pay you back.

To help people who do not have any hope, helps you.

When you think about growing and being empowered yourself, it is what you've been able to do for other people that leaves you the fullest.

I'm motivated to keep going to keep making a difference in people's lives.

If my story can help someone to better themselves in life, then so be it.

At a pretty young age, I wanted to do something with my life that would help people. I've been that way for quite a while.

The secret to greatness is in serving everyone else.

To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

We tried in our simple way to lead our life in a manner that may make a difference to those of others.