John C. Maxwell Quotes

Life is about becoming a better version of yourself.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

I try to get people thinking, to consider their pasts and presents, ultimately encouraging them and giving them the tools to embrace the work of reshaping their lives.

My life guided me to express my full potential.

The goal in my life is to grow and become better than before.

I basically got into the radio game 'cause I was looking to do something positive with my life.

I made a pact with myself when I was younger that if were to ever grow up to be someone, I would be someone who would make a difference, instead of being just another person on the planet who doesn't look into anything.

I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.

You have to do something else by 30 years old, if you haven't found another way to explore your own identity and make something of it.

You know when transformation happens? Right now. It’s a present activity. Who is the new you? Show me the new you.

It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.

We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it behind us untouched, we can pound it to gravel, we can shape it into glory. Examples from every other life are left for us to see, lifeworks finished and unfinished, guiding and warning. Near the end our sculpture is nearly finished, and we can smooth and polish what we started years before. We can make our progress then, but to do it we must see past the appearances of age.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. But there are also things — harmful attitudes, superstitions, emotions — that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.

I have examples of people who find their way back later on in life, in their 30's, 40's, it can happen in your 50's, I'm sure it can. It's not really a science. It's maybe more of an art.

Mary Allen has compiled a wealth of tools and resources - both inner and outer - to support you in consciously directing your untapped potential and creating a life that you love.

To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I'm the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone. When you wake up and act like a loving person, you realize not only that you are altered, but that the people around you are also transformed, because everybody is changed by the reception of this love.

For many many years, I've taught, not only leadership, but I've taught people that they need a personal growth plan. Growth is not an automatic process for you or me or anybody.

Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.

You are embarking on the greatest adventure of your life - to improve your self-image, to create more meaning in your life and in the lives of others. This is your responsibility.

If you have nothing to do, look at yourself and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve. It may make you wealthy, although it is more likely it will make you happy.

By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.

The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

I prefer stories about people who are, in a sense, trying to find better versions of themselves.