John C. Maxwell Quotes

Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.

Great leaders inspire, they don't manipulate.

Anyone who influences others is a leader.

Leadership is influence. To the extent we influence others, we lead them.

I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.

It's through a leader's actions - what he or she does and says on a daily basis - that the essence of great leadership becomes apparent.

Obama is a great leader. He can fire people up and get them to do what he wants.

To a great leader there is no worthy seed.

A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

The best leaders lift people up versus tear people down.

A leader must be inspired by the people before a leader can inspire the people.

Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.

I believe that in order to be a good leader you must understand the value of praising people to success.

Leaders tap into the emotions of their people by getting excited themselves

Those who lead inspire us Whether they are individuals or organizations, we follow those who lead not because we have to but because we want to.

Those who lead by example and demonstrate passion for what they do make it much easier for their followers to do the same.

Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.

If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

You know you're a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.

A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.

The greatest leaders don't rule. They inspire

A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them.

Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.