John C. Maxwell Quotes

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

I'm so excited to be carrying on in Dad's footsteps and making sure that everything he worked so hard for continues for the generations to come.

I always say the greats just get better.

The future has a lot to do with the past.

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

I'm trying to create a better pathway for the next generation.

You can see things growing up, be inspired by things. Just because they're not around anymore doesn't mean that you can't take those inspirations and bring them to life and bring them to the next generation.

What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.

Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.

What I'm interested in doing after I get out of the presidency is to make sure that I'm working with that next generation so that they understand you can't just rely on inspiration.

Let us not only remember the past and its required sacrifice, let us also remember that we are responsible to build a legacy for the generations which follow us.

I want to inspire the next generation. I want to be in mission control with someone younger than me wanting to break my record.

The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from a little mound of earth. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

No matter how successful you are, change is always good.

All the best things and treasures of this world are not to be produced by each generation for itself; but we are all intended, not to carve our work in snow that will melt, but each and all of us to be continually rolling a great white gathering snow-ball, higher and higher, larger and larger, along the Alps of human power.

We clasp the hands of those who go before us.

Success is a continuing thing. It is growth and development. It is achieving one thing and using that as a stepping stone to achieve something else.

Everyone who got where he is started where he was.

I know that there are obstacles; I know that there are hills to climb, I know there were people before me that made my journey easier and there are people behind me that I have made the journey easier for.

I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always evolving but never interrupted.

Every master was once a beginner. Every pro was once an amateur.

Success is not success without a successor.

We could not have gotten where we are without coming the way we came.

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." (Harvard Business School definition of leadership)