John C. Maxwell Quotes

In life, worthwhile accomplishments and acquisitions take time. Usually the better the reward, the more time it takes to acquire it.

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.

Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Life ain't about just 'Chillin' It.' I've learned that.

One bit of advice I can give people is to remember that anything worthwhile takes a long time.

Our "overnight" success took 1,000 days.

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.

What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Success is a fruit of slow growth.

If you want success, you have to work hard at it and realize that it takes time; it doesn't come to you overnight.

Infinite patience produces immediate results.

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

Be assured that every man's success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the watersannually deposit their slime, not where they reach in some freshet only. A man is not his hope, nor his despair, nor yet his past deed. We know not yet what we have done, still less what we are doing. Wait till evening, and other parts of our day's work will shine than we had thought at noon, and we shall discover the real purport of our toil. As when the farmer has reached the end of the furrow and looks back, he can tell best where the pressed earth shines most.

If at first you don't succeed-try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success.

The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.

To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that's how I think.

You can't become a leader in one conference.

Doing good stuff or stuff that you are proud of takes time and takes effort.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.