John C. Maxwell Quotes

If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.

People respond to vision, not need.

I am more interested in what moves people, than how they move.

People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them.

Tap into people's emotions. We've all been put to sleep by a speaker who just gives the facts. You must tap into people's feelings.

I have to have an emotional connection to what I am ultimately selling because it is emotion, whether you are selling religion, politics, even a breath mint.

Pretty much my feel toward MCs is, if you really got heart, you got passion, let's get on and do something. I like doing stuff with people that's real.

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

It is stories - both real and fictional - that can captivate hearts, change minds and, in the most powerful examples, spur action.

You don’t address their brains. You address their hearts.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

Movement inspires a lot in me.

One of the things that I intend to devote a lot of time to in the coming years is continuing to try to move people's hearts and minds with humor, with stories, with anecdotes, with facts and information.

Find a way to express what moves you.

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do. It's not about being perfect, it's not about sounding absolutely correct, it's not about what goes on in a computer. It's about what goes on in here [your heart] and what goes on in here [your head].

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

... love moves the world along.

The future is now. Roll up your sleeves and let your passion flow. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.

I want people to be moved, to feel called to action. That's what I want to do.

The romance is essential. I love the love. I don't love just people struggling. I love what people are struggling for. That moves me. I love watching people be loving, and I find it enchanting, magical and transporting. It's one of the reasons that I go to the movies, and that's why I like putting it in movies.

You can't inspire people with facts. They need a cause. They need a symbol.

Music inspires me.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.