John C. Maxwell Quotes

I don't want people who just tell me what they think I want to hear, because that doesn't do me any good.

It's amazing how many people beat you at golf now that you're no longer president.

Love is being honest with yourself at all times being honest with the other person at all times telling, listening, respecting the truth and never pretending Love is the source of reality

Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It’s hard sometimes.

One of the most difficult things is to get truthful people. Nobody can manage well if they don't have a lot of mirrors around them that are honest, that tell them what they're doing is wrong or wrongheaded or misconceived. And in every large bureaucracy on earth, most people are afraid to tell the boss the truth.

Individuating and taking someone else's perspective can be very powerful.

I've learned to really listen to your family and friends. Because they want the best for you. Even if it's not what you want to hear, they're gonna tell you the truth.

Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

Doffing the ego's safe glory, he finds his naked reality.

People keep saying, 'How'd you get power?' Nobody gives you power. I'll tell you what power is. Power in my estimation is if people will listen to you. That's it.

Be willing to face life squarely and get down beneath the surface of life where the verities and realities are to be found.

You see 'awesome' and I see 'lost.' It's very easy to lose touch with reality when you've got that many people thinking you are more than you really are.

People of influence understand the incredible value of becoming a good listener.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

I am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered, for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people, there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us.

It's safe to talk openly and honestly with people because they're not really listening.

... it does not do to tell great people anything unpleasant.

I'm a fan of the truth... even if it's painfully hard to accept.

For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are "like" everybody - that is the bitterest blow of all to the ego. But in the end it is only the truth, no matter how ugly or shameful, that is right, that fits together, that makes real people, and strangely enough - beauty.

Drop your false ideas. See through people. If you see through yourself, you will see through everyone. Then you will love them. Otherwise you spend the whole time grappling with your wrong notions of them, with your illusions that are constantly crashing against reality.

As I grow older I find that though I think I'm saying the same things as I always did, people listen to me more.

I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating, wonderful thing in the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's wonderful. When people tell me, You're wrong I say, What can you expect of an ass?

People should stop poking fun at other people and worry about themselves. The reality is that my movies all have made money.

People who ask for your criticism want only praise.