John C. Maxwell

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

The best leaders are humble enough to realize their victories depend upon their people.

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

A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

Leaders who are effective are leaders who are disciplined in their daily lives.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of tender kinship from the earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge. The best introduction to astronomy is to think of the nightly heavens as a little lot of stars belonging to one’s own homestead.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.

Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man’s virtues the means of deceiving him.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.