John C. Maxwell Quotes

One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential.

My goal is not to be better than anyone else..but to be better that I used to be

Instead of wanting to be better than other people, let's channel that energy to be better than we were yesterday and then again to be the best we can be tomorrow.

On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.

We can all become better than we are.

Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.

By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men.

I compete only with myself, and I try to become a better human being. This is my goal.

I'm a work in progress. I'm trying to be better.

If you think you're perfect already, then you never will be.

The most important person on this earth is you. What are you doing to help the most important person in this world: you? To live right, you have to exercise, have goals and challenges.

Were man to devote as much time and energy to himself as he has devoted to that which man has produced, what astounding and unbelievable progress would be made; a progress eclipsing all he has so far successfully accomplished.

You will never have the answers, but you have to keep pushing yourself and keep reading and keep working on yourself.

Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve?" Perfectionism is other-focused: "What will they think?"

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

I think each one of us has committed to improving.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

Challenge yourself, its fine not to be a totally finished person.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

All of us want to be better. Human nature is always seeking advancement.

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.