John C. Maxwell Quotes

When you know more, you can do more.

MAN’S ONLY LIMITATION, within reason, LIES IN HIS DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF HIS IMAGINATION.

If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.

We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.

Every bush can burn if you fire it with your imagination.

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

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

You're gifted to do something.

That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.

The more we do, the more we can do.

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

Welcome every talent, hail every invention, cherish every gem of art—foster every gleam of authorship, honor every acquirement and every natural gift, lift ourselves to the level of our destinies...

Leadership is always about change: it's not about mobilising people to do what they've always done well to continue to do it well.

If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

It's always great when you get a chance to give someone an opportunity to step outside his envelope and show people that he can do it.

I can create for others.

He tries to show each person how much they are capable of achieving.

Imagination is the source of all human achievement.

Ideas are like seeds, apparently insignificant when first held in the hand. Once firmly planted, they can grow and flower into almost anything at all, a cornstalk, or a giant redwood, or a flight across the ocean. Whatever a man imagines, he can achieve.

Everybody needs some inspiration, Everybody needs some motivation, mix it up with some imagination, and use your natural gifts.

Capability means imagination.

The power of yes: that's what allows creativity to breathe and to come in. That's what allows your ideas to become living, breathing, moving dreams in action.

Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great.

What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the risk taker. And remembering that, the leader must reach down to the springs that never dry up, the ever-fresh springs of the human spirit.

All of us can create if we allow ourselves to.