John C. Maxwell Lead Quotations

Leaders attract potential leaders.

Trust must be built day by day. It calls for consistency.

Time spent with a potential leader is an investment.

When you believe in people, you motivate them and release their potential.

It is the leader's job to hold hope high.

It is the leaders job to add significance to the lives of the people he leads.

Leaders determine the level of an organization.

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

An organization cannot increase its productivity-but people can!

A person who refuses to risk change fails to grow.

A leader who loves status quo soon becomes a follower.

It takes a leader to know a leader, grow a leader, and show a leader.

Leaders express feelings that other leaders sense.

Unless you want to carry the whole load yourself, you need to be developing leaders.

There is no success without a successor.

Birds of a feather really do flock together.

Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess.

A great leader has the ability to instill within his people confidence in themselves.

Great leaders always have self-discipline -without exception.

Success doesn't come instantly. Neither does the ability to lead.

Strong leaders equal strong organizations.

People will not follow a leader who does not have confidence in himself.

A leader's ability to convey confidence and his ability to communicate effectively are similar.

Seek people who seek solutions.

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

The best teacher for a leader is evaluated experience.

Nurturing has the ability to transform people's lives.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a genius. You don't have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

Leader’s potential is determined by those closest to him.

Transmit your vision emotionally by gaining credibility, demonstrating passion, establishing relationships and communicating a felt need. Transmit it logically by confronting reality, formulating strategy, accepting responsibility, celebrating victory and learning from defeat.

Anybody who thinks that they are a leader and doesn't have anyone following them is just out for a walk.

When a leader reaches out in passion, he is usually met with an answering passion.

Change the leader, change the organization.

Every new level of growth we hope to experience as leaders calls for a new level of change. You cannot have one without the other. If you want to be a better leader, get ready to make some trades.

A leader is a reader.

True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from Influence.

A word of Encouragement from a leader can #Inspire a person to reach her potential

Leadership is evoking in others the capacity to dream.

Over time, is it easier or harder to sustain your influence within your organization? With charisma alone, influence becomes increasingly more difficult to sustain. With character, as time passes, influence builds and requires less work to sustain.

My leadership began to take flight when I allowed myself to press people to change-whether they thanked me or cursed me.

Leaders must live by higher standards than their followers.

Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent inside of them.

Leadership is the dream made reality.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it's as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

Management is the process of assuring that the program and objectives of the organization are implemented. Leadership on the other hand has to do with casting vision and motivating people.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

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.

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

People who are not leaders automatically gravitate toward lines--limitations set by others. Many people are taught this in kindergarten when they are instructed to stay within the lines while coloring. But leaders are more creative than that. They look for options and opportunities. They try to take things in a new direction, or beyond the limit. Progress and innovation are made by people who think without lines.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

The leader continually passes on the vision to those who come around, knowing that dreams, if presented right, are contagious.

Without failure there is no achievement.

Leadership is the power of one harnessing the power of many.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team's performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded people.

Progress does not occur without change.

It was while I was pastoring that I began to realize that pastors were not growing churches because they didn't understand leadership because they were not trained, adequate leaders.

Thank God for the tough times. They are the reason you are there - to be the leader. If everything was going well, the people wouldn't need you!

Be generous, be humble, and be grateful when achieving your dreams.

The more intentional you are about your leadership growth, the greater your potential for becoming the leader you're capable of being. Never stop learning.

Needless to say, you can love people without leading them, but you cannot lead people without loving them.

The first order of things to be changed is me, the leader. After I consider how hard it is to change myself, then I will understand the challenge of trying to change others. This is the ultimate test of leadership.

The better you are at surrounding yourself with people of high potential, the greater your chance for success.

People naturally follow leaders stronger than themselves.

Leaders have two characteristics: first they are going somewhere, and second they are able to persuade other people to go with them.

Coming together is a beginning, and staying together is progress, but only when teams sweat together do they find success.

People's purpose in life is always connected to their giftedness.

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

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it's almost always due to personal growth.

Every relationship in your organization will affect you one way or another. Those who do not increase you will inevitably decrease you.

Confront your inadequacies and push your personal boundaries: It's the surest way to grow, improve and expand the scope of your influence.

People will summarize your life in one sentence - Pick it now.

Most pastors have a hard time grasping a vision. But vision is the indispensable quality of a leader.

If you're a leader, it's important to set aside time to quiet yourself and listen for God's direction.

Openness by the leader paves the way for ownership by the people. Without ownership, changes will be short term. Changing people's habits and ways of thinking is like writing instructions in the snow during a snowstorm. Every twenty minutes the instructions must be rewritten, unless ownership is given along with instructions.

Seek advice, but make sure it's from someone who has successfully handled mistakes or adversities.

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.

The more credible you are, the more confidence people place in you, thereby allowing you the privilege of influencing their lives.

Anyone can steer a ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course

A leader who produces other leaders multiples their influences.

Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.

Not realizing what you want is a problem of knowledge. Not pursuing what you want is a problem of motivation. Not achieving what you want is a problem of persistence.

Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.

Acquiring and keeping good people is a leader's most important task.

As a leader, you have to take responsibility for your own failures as well as successes. That's the only way you'll learn. If you keep learning, you'll improve. If you improve, your leadership will get better. And in time, you will earn the right to lead on the level you deserve.

Grow a leader-grow the organization. A company cannot grow without until its leaders grow within.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.

The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

The Visalus Founders are the finest and sharpest young leaders that I have ever met.

Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable.

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

Inexperienced leaders are quick to lead before knowing anything about the people they intend to lead. But mature leaders listen, learn and then lead.

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

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

You must do right before you feel good.