John C. Maxwell Quotes

My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

People may teach what they know, but they reproduce what they are.

Before a person can achieve the kind of life he wants, he must think, act, walk, talk and conduct himself in all of his affairs as would the person he wishes to become.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.

The way I see it, we teach our children through modeling.

All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step

Before you can do something, you must first be something.

Attitudes are caught, not taught.

Confusion is a gift from God. Those times when you feel most desperate for a solution, sit. Wait. The information will become clear. The confusion is there to guide you. Seek detachment and become the producer of your life.

We can teach only if we are willing to learn.

Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

We must believe the things We teach our children

The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the total acceptance of who you are.

Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence.

You can teach what you know, but you can only reproduce what you are.

It is not so much what we say or do that educates; what really educates is who we are.

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

Part of teaching is helping people create themselves.

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

An expert knows the subject very well. A model teaches by showing instead of just telling.

It is not so much what we know that is important, as what we are and what we do.