John C. Maxwell Quotes

Successful people...focus on the rewards of success: learning from their mistakes and thinking about how they can improve themselves and their situations.

Success doesn't come from pie-in-the-sky thinking. It's the result of consciously doing something each day that will add to your overall excellence.

Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

The simplest and most practical lesson I know is to resolve to be good today, but better tomorrow.

You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By becoming a little better each and every day, over a period of time, you will become a lot better.

Your life will never improve unless you start making daily improvements.

The truth is that most people have a better chance to be uncommon by effort than by natural gifts. Anyone could give that effort in his or her chosen endeavor, but the typical person doesn't, choosing to do only enough to get by.

I think that if you grow up trying to be the best then you have to be competitive because the more you compete, the more someone is there that is a challenge and the more your performance improves.

Winning is not a secret that belongs to a very few, winning is something that we can learn by studying ourselves, studying the environment and making ourselves ready for any challenge that is in front of us.

Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.

The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.

My personal writing philosophy is to try and write better every day.

I need to improve every day.

Leadership is a journey - you never arrive.

I'm trying to get better on and off the golf course at all times so I think it's a work in progress all day long.

I have stayed positive, and I believe I am still improving in every competition I enter.

You can accomplish virtually any goal you set for yourself, as long as the goal is clear and you persist long enough.

It is our duty to try to be perfect, … to improve each day, and look upon our course last week and do things better this week; do things better today than we did them yesterday

Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.

The best way to create spectacular results in the most important areas of your life is through daily practice

Invest in yourself now and reap the dividends day after day after month after year.

A friend of mine says that perfection is a road, not a destination.

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.

If you want to be successful, don't seek success - seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short of the best that you can do.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.