John C. Maxwell Quotes

Everybody overestimates what you can do in a day and underestimates what you can do in months of work.

We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there.

I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

Did you know there's a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy - running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything - is the same as wasting your time? It's frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it's make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who's in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you're investing your time in that.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

I really love learning and working long hours.

Keep yourself motivated. You've got to be motivated, you've got to wake up every day and understand what that day is about; you've got to have personal goals - short term goals, intermediate goals, and long term goals. Be flexible in getting to those goals, but if you do not have goals, you will not achieve them.

If I don't do something constructive every day, I feel like I have wasted my time, and I almost feel guilty for not doing something I could have learned from.

Just think of the work you've set yourself to do, and do it as well as you can.

Don't let a day go by without doing something... no matter how small.

John Wooden would say never mistake activity for achievement. Sometimes we think we're really doing well on a given day. But 'What did you accomplish?' is the question that we should really be asking not 'What did we do?'

I never feel like I conquered the day and did everything I possibly should have, could have, would have.

When things are starting to work, you get up at five in the morning thinking, what are we going to do today? You stay up until one in the morning getting it done, and then you start the next day with the same energy, because it's working!

You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years.

Never confuse activity with accomplishment.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

I think it's nice to work and then have success.

It's important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them.