John C. Maxwell - Person Quotes

54 Sourced Quotes

View all John C. Maxwell Quotes
By choosing to embrace and practice good values every day, you choose the higher course in life. And your life goes in a direction that you will always feel good about. You may not always get what you desire, but you will always be the person you desire to be.

John C. Maxwell
A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

John C. Maxwell
Few things build a person up like affirmation. According to Webster's New World Dictionary, Third College Edition (Simon and Schuster, 1991), the word affirm comes from ad firmare, which means to make firm. So when you affirm people, you make firm within them the things you see about them. Do that often enough, and the belief that solidifies within them will become stronger than the doubts they have about themselves.

John C. Maxwell
If you want to help others and become a person of influence, keep smiling, sharing, giving, and turning the other cheek.

John C. Maxwell
More than anything else, what keeps a person going in the midst of adversity is having a sense of purpose. It is the fuel that powers persistence.

John C. Maxwell
As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.

John C. Maxwell
It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.

John C. Maxwell
People today are desperate for leaders, but they want to be influenced only by individuals they can trust, persons of good character.

John C. Maxwell
Every person has seeds of greatness within, even though they may currently be dormant.

John C. Maxwell
Show me a person who sees himself negatively and I will show you a person who sees others in a negative way.

John C. Maxwell
Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.

John C. Maxwell
We tend to become what the most important person in our life thinks we will become. Think the best, believe the best, and express the best in others. Your affirmation will not only make you more attractive to them, but you will help play an important part in their personal development.

John C. Maxwell
A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential

John C. Maxwell
The Wrong Person in the Wrong Place = Regression. The Wrong Person in the Right Place = Frustration. The Right Person in the Wrong Place = Confusion. The Right Person in the Right Place = Progression. The Right People in the Right Places = Multiplication.

John C. Maxwell
There is a world of difference between a person who has a big problem and a person who makes a problem big.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership ability determines a person's level of effectiveness.

John C. Maxwell
As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

John C. Maxwell
A person who has a dream knows what he is willing to give up in order to go up.

John C. Maxwell
If you want to become a better listener, however you need to learn to direct that energy and attention positively by concentrating on the person you're with.

John C. Maxwell
Like every person, every thought has the potential to become something great.

John C. Maxwell
If you desire to become a more generous person, don't wait for your income to change. Change your heart.

John C. Maxwell
If you want to reach your potential and become the person you were created to be, you must do much more than just experience life and hope that you learn what you need along the way. You must go out of your way to seize growth opportunities as if your future depended on it. Why? Because it does. Growth doesn't just happen--not for me, not for you, not for anybody. You HAVE TO go after it.

John C. Maxwell
I've never known a person focused on yesterday to have a better tomorrow.

John C. Maxwell
As you interact with others, remember this: anytime a person's response is larger than the issue at hand, the response is almost always about something else.

John C. Maxwell