John C. Maxwell Quotes

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.

I hope my books empower kids, and that they learn how to work out their problems themselves.

Hero shows you how to solve the problem - yourself.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

I think being independent gives you a different confidence about yourself. It gives you more power, especially in certain relationships.

If you want people to take action, you must refrain from giving them the answers.

Whenever you need something from someone else before you can move forward, it's a dependency. We believe dependencies slow people down. We want people to be more independent, because that will keep them moving forward.

If you can't hire someone smarter than you, do it yourself.

I think many times we charge the Lord for things we can do ourselves. If only we realized how well we have been equipped.

I don't ever want to have to need someone again - where you feel like, without them, you can't be yourself.

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties.

I'm such a lucky guy. I've been able to make my own decisions for my own life for the last fifty years...or sixty ... well maybe not sixty. Even though I think I was making my own decisions at the tender age of eight.

I've always believed that parents are not for leaning upon, but rather exist to make leaning unnecessary.

I don't want to ever think that I don't know what to do. I want to deal with my own things, to perform my own roles, to be like, "I did this."

So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others...before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you.

I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.

In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside force which, however vigilant one supposes it to be, can never answer all social needs. Man, thus accustomed to seek his well-being only through his own efforts, raises himself in his own opinion as he does in the opinion of others; his soul becomes larger and stronger at the same time.

I’d like to take care of someone but at the same time I like girls who are independent.

Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.

You are not likely to bring out the best in people or nurture their creativity if every time you hear about their problems you instantly offer a solution Encourage people to look for their own solutions-and project the knowledge that they are capable of doing so.

Were I to solve problems for others they would remain stagnant; they would never grow. It would be a great injustice to them. My approach is to help with cause rather than effect. When I help others, it is by instilling within them the inspiration to work out problems by themselves. If you feed a man a meal, you only feed him for a day-but if you teach a man to grow food, you feed him for a lifetime.

It's not dependency that creates your future. It's independence that creates your better future.

I've always been very independent. Even in relationships, I'm focused on the quality of my life and not enmeshing myself so much with somebody else's experience. But I think there's incredible value in being married.

I think it's the first idea I ever got about doing something on my own, because it was the first time I have ever really felt the confidence to do it.