John C. Maxwell

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

If you wouldn’t follow yourself, why should anyone else?

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

Those who would mend the world must first mend themselves.

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.