John C. Maxwell Quotes

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts, our beliefs, our speech and our actions. We can transform our life experience simply by changing our language.

A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.

The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

You can be as you choose to be. It's an act of discipline sometimes, but it can be done.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

Every time you think a negative thought, it's one step in the wrong direction, for me.

When you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel.

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.

Life is what you make of it. You can make it easy on yourself or you can make it hard.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.