John C. Maxwell Quotes

A great leader has the ability to instill within his people confidence in themselves.

Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.

Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.

The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Leadership is having the trust of the people are trying to lead.

People will only follow you if they see you're ahead, are convinced you know the route, trust you, and want to get there too.

Followship is just as important as leadership. It's very important that you'll know if you're a great leader because you will have awesome followship. And the people behind you will take that burden of responsibility.

Leadership is about empowering others to achieve things they did not think possible.

Leading well is not about enriching yourself - it's about empowering others

Real power comes by empowering others.

True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from Influence.

Leadership is the ability to encourage the best efforts of others in working toward a desirable goal.

True leadership strengthens the followers. It is a process of teaching, setting an example, and empowering others. If you seek to lead, your ability will ultimately be measured in the successes of those around you.

A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.

Leadership is a choice. It's not a rank, it's a choice. I know many people who are at the top of their organization who have authority. We have to do what they say because they have authority over us. But they're not leaders. We wouldn't follow them. They may be at the top of the company but they're not leaders.

Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.

When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.

Even if you don't have the authorities - and frankly I didn't have the authorities for anything - if you take charge, people will follow.

I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.

A great leader also has the ability to make people an inch taller in his presence.

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

The world isn't one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and sufficient authority.

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.