John C. Maxwell Quotes

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.

It is up to us not to bury that potential we have.

A human being is like a seed. Either you can keep it as it is, or you can make it grow into a wonderful tree with flowers and fruits.

I believe every person has within themselves inexhaustible reserves of potential they have never even come close to realizing.

Every person is born with a seed of greatness.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.

Every person has seeds of greatness within, even though they may currently be dormant.

Don't be a pigeon if you were born to be an eagle. Experience God's altitude for your life.

You have GREATNESS within you, and responsibility to manifest that greatness!

Every life is capable of greatness.

I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his 'limits' of fully 'realizing' his potentialities; that this, his being cheated and choked of it, is infinitely the ghastliest, commonest, and most inclusive of all the crimes of which the human world can assure itself.

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

Human potential is the same for all. If you have will power, then you can change anything.

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

I'm a great believer in people and their untapped potential.

Make a strong commitment to reach your full potential as a human being.

There is within each of us a divine spark of greatness. Who knows of what we are capable if we only try?

Even the men most richly endowed with ability, education, and opportunity, even the giants of the race, after the completest life possible, feel, as they stand on the edge of the grave, that they are but human acorns with all their possibilities still in them, just beginning to sprout.

Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?