John C. Maxwell Successful Quotations

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous - is changed by it.

The secret of successful people lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.

The person who does only what he must when he is in the mood or when it's convenient isn't going to be successful.

Successful leaders have the courage to take action while others hesitate.

Successful people don't have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.

A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. Few things in life are better than seeing people realize their potential. If you invest in people by helping individuals improve themselves, showing them the way to their “right place”, they will never be the same again. And neither will you. It is impossible to help others without helping yourself.

In the book [Today Matters] I talk about successful people make important decisions early in their life, and then they manage those decisions the rest of their life.

Nothing separates successful people from unsuccessful people more than how they use their time!

Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.

Successful people do what is right no matter how they feel, and by doing right, they feel good.

I tell a person, "If I could go home with you tomorrow and you and I could spend the day together from maybe 8:00 to 6:00, and we went out to a restaurant at 6:30, I could tell you with a high degree of accuracy how successful you're going to be." That's huge because I'm just going to look and see, what kind of attitude do you have, how do you relate to people, how well do you prioritize your life? I'm going to see all of those things in the process of a day.

I literally wrote a book on it called Your Roadmap For Success. And in it I said success is three things: knowing my purpose in life, I think it's impossible for anybody to be successful until they really discover why they're here on earth and what God has planned for them; secondly, growing to my maximum potential.

Everything is a tradeoff. Everywhere you leave, you leave some good things. The more successful you are, the harder it is to make tradeoffs. That's why some people become successful and then become flat. Be willing to give up income for potential, for opportunity.

Successful people make right decisions early and manage those decisions daily.

Successful people reject rejection.

No matter if you're just starting out or if you are at the peak of your career, the more you work in your strength zone, the more successful you will be.

SELF-DISCIPLINE, more than any other personal quality I can think of, is the one thing that separates successful people from the unsuccessful. Think of all it encompasses: honoring commitments, promises and deadlines, keeping your life on schedule, being willing to go the extra mile... Self-discipline is essential to success. The alternative is a life ruled by emotions, and none of us can afford that if we're going to fulfill our purpose and realize our potential.

You must develop yourself to be successful

When problems confront successful leaders, they get excited about the opportunity.

If you really want to be a successful leader, you must develop other leaders around you. You must establish a team.

If your desire is to be successful or to make a positive impact on your world, you need to become a person of influence.

All leaders make mistakes. They are a part of life. Successful leaders recognize their errors, learn from them, and work to correct their faults.

It takes a lot of people to create a success. That's why I say that few leaders are successful unless a lot of people want them to be.

COURAGE isn't an absence of fear. It is doing what you are afraid to do, letting go of the familiar and forging ahead into new territory. What I have discovered is that the best leaders have the courage to act - are willing to take the risk, make the statement, point the way, lead the way - when others hesitate out of fear. Effective leadership requires the ability to stand up, stand out, and the conviction to do it. I have never known a successful leader that was not courageous.

Successful people...focus on the rewards of success: learning from their mistakes and thinking about how they can improve themselves and their situations.

Business schools reward complex behavior but it's the simple behavior that makes you successful in life

The most successful people in life are the ones who settle their critical issues early and manage them daily.

Profile of a winning team - They play to win. They have a winning attitude. They keep improving. They make their teammates more successful.

To be successful, you can't just run on the fast track; run on your track.

Successful people don't make a daily decision to grow. The decision has already been made and just needs to be fed. To feed success you must ... know your purpose in life, grow daily to reach your maximum potential, and sow seeds that benefit others. Remember, success is not a destination; it's a daily thing.

A lot of people believe they are successful because they have everything they want. They have added value to themselves. But I believe significance comes when you add value to others and you can't have true success without significance.

Successful people don’t wait for everything to be perfect to move forward.