John C. Maxwell Trying Quotations

To get out of a hard situation, try a soft answer.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

When pastors ask me if their people will buy this vision, I ask them two questions: "Have they bought into your leadership?" If they haven't, don't ever try to pass on a vision. Second, "Have you processed this vision correctly?"

I wish I could say I coined the phrase "failing forward." I do it all the time. I find as I've embraced this approach to business, life, cycling and generally any new endeavor I take on, I've grown more and more comfortable with the possibility that I am not likely to succeed on my first try. And that's ok.

I felt the hand and the call of God in my life that I would be doing ministry and trying to serve Him the best that I could.

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

If you don’t try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get.

To be an influencer, you have to love people before you can try to lead them.

The harder you try to forget something, the more you think about it subconsciously.

I can afford to take a risk in my life. Only the insecure cannot afford to risk failure. The secure can be honest about themselves. They can admit failure. They are able to seek help and try again. They can change

People are funny. When they are young, they will spend their health to get wealth. Later, they will gladly pay all they have trying to get their health back.