John C. Maxwell Quotes

When you die there's going to be a tombstone. It's going to have your name. It's gonna have the year you're born and the day you die. In between there's going to be a dash. And that dash is going to represent everything you did in your life, good and bad. That's how you're remembered. What do you want your dash to represent?

The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this Earth. It's not going to be, 'It was a great platform. It was great to win the Super Bowl,' but really and truly what you're going to leave on this Earth is the influence on others.

All I can do is just do stuff while I am alive and hopefully that track record will speak for itself.

What is your legacy? Are you intentional about the sort of influence you want to have on the world around you? Being aware of how you want to be remembered gives you a perspective on what is truly important. Leadership is influence, and relationships are the foundation of leadership. Nothing is more predictive of your legacy than the quality of people you surround yourself with.

The game will fade one day. I realize that success is one thing; impact is another. I live to impact people.

Whether you reach a lot of people or have a profound impact on a few people, their memories of you are your afterlife.

I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.

I hope to inspire people, influence people.

I've always had a philosophy that position doesn't define power. Impact defines power. What impact are you making on people? What impact are you making on business?

One shouldn't write one's own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism.

Every person has a legacy. You may not know what your impact is, and it may not be something that you can write on your tombstone, but every person has an impact on this world.

The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.

I guess it's nice to know I still resonate in people's minds.

I hope that, when I leave this planet, I will have touched a few people in a positive way. That's really what I hope I am remembered for the most.

The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this Earth.

Every leader wants to put his or her imprint on the work that they do, and grow up in specific eras.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.

Milestones have never really meant a lot. They probably will mean more when I've finished playing and actually reflect on what I have achieved.

You should never be defined by what you do, by the things you have; you've got to define yourself by who you are and who you impact and how you impact people. And that's the thing I try to get across to my players.

Basketball to me is more than a passion or a paycheck - it is the tool I use to try to have an impact in the world.

I want to make a diference. I want people to know my name. Like Ali.

Often times people forget that every human has potential to change the world like Steve Jobs did.

What you do does matter. And people do remember it and feel it.

My great hope for my speck of time on this planet would be that I live and die, and that what I leave behind has made some kind of impression and has been for the better in terms of my family and friends and, in my case, public service.