John C. Maxwell Quotes

Not everybody can create a foundation that's worth a billion dollars, but all of us can figure out those things we do. I really think God loves us too much to give us an assignment we don't enjoy doing.

We are all good at things - a varied assortment of things - and we all desperately need to find out what those things are for our self-esteem. If there is anything young people need, it is confidence and an identity and a purpose.

All of us are born with certain gifts, and the secret to success is figuring out what your gift is and using it in a way that benefits others.

Of course there are people out there who are helping others find their why. Some are doing a really great job and some are doing a not so great job. I love the fact there are people out there, and consultants out there doing that.

Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.

Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.

People have a seed to success within them. Most never find it and therefore fail to reach their potential. Occasionally, a leader discovers it and helps that individual develop it. For both, they now can fulfill the purpose for which they are born.

I think we're all blessed with gifts and I was lucky I just found out what mine was early on and have planted that seed and tried to water it every day.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

I think the more important task for a young person than developing a personal brand is figuring out what she's great at, what she loves to do, and how she can use that to leave an imprint in the world. Those are tough questions, but essential ones. Answer those - and the personal brand follows.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

My purpose, which I finally found thanks to social media, is helping all of these people find their purpose.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

I find that comforting and an equally purposeful way to think, that there's lots of ways to flex both your strengths and your weaknesses.

Life is about growth and exploration, not achieving a fixed state of balance. You have a very limited time on earth to experience all that you can. Figuring out how to squeeze the most out of your family, work, and spirituality is your life's purpose. Go do it.

You should do as much stuff as you have the ability to do because it will help you find what you really want to do.

I'm just interested in carving out a meaningful life.

The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.

Many people will never learn the lessons meant for them in this lifetime, nor become the person they were meant to be, simply because they are too busy being someone else.

Your ultimate life experience and legacy is being built moment by moment, day by day. Your story is being crafted by your every action, all leading somewhere, all leading to what one hopes will be a magnificent crescendo.

Your past may not be perfect, but it was perfect for your purpose.

I've learned a simple principle: all I have to do is be the best 'me' that I can be. One day when I read the Scripture about David, that he fulfilled his purpose for his generation. I knew God spoke to me.

Throughout the years I feel if God promotes me to stay alive and have more years to live on Earth, which I pray and I would love to, people are going to see my personality, and they're going to see more of me and be able to understand me more.

Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.

It is not peace we seek but meaning.