John C. Maxwell Quotes

Try to do for the next generation of church leaders what the previous generation of church leaders has not done for you.

Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.

The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics.

As with any skill, you have to work at leadership. Watch how the best do it, review what you've done, and look at what you might do.

Great leaders, the research shows, are made as they gradually acquire, in the course of their lives and careers, the competencies that make them so effective. The competencies can be learned by any leader, at any point.

Many in positions of authority lack the capabilities to truly lead. They are not credible. They do not command genuine respect. They are not committed to serve. They are not continually learning and growing. They are not wise.

We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop

In Leading with Honor, Lee uses gripping stories from the POW camps to engage the reader and teach invaluable principles of leadership. I highly recommend this book for developing leaders at all levels in any organization, military of civilian.

We are not all leaders. We are called leaders.

Leaders are not born, they're made.

We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.

Your leadership development strategy is perfectly designed to produce the caliber of leader you currently have.

There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists.

The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men.

A good leader needs to know how to follow.

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

The proudest moment for [a teacher of leaders] is seeing not what students learn but what they do.

Leaders are made, they are not born

Leadership is what you need to learn next

We have the best leaders and the most depth of leadership we've ever had. If I get hit by a truck, maybe it would get me out of the way and it would go better.

It takes a leader to know a leader, grow a leader, and show a leader.

The leadership definitely have to come from the leaders.

Grow a leader-grow the organization. A company cannot grow without until its leaders grow within.