John C. Maxwell Dream Quotations

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

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

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.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

The dream is free...but the journey will cost you something.

If you embrace possibility thinking, your dreams will go from molehill to mountain size, and because you believe in possibilities, you put yourself in position to achieve them.

Every journey toward a dream is personal, and as a result, so is the price that must be paid for it.

God has put a dream inside you. It's yours, and no one else's. It declares your uniqueness. It holds your potential. Only you can birth it. Only you can live it. Not to discover it, take responsibility for it, and act upon it is to negatively affect yourself as well as all those who would benefit from your dream.

Leadership is evoking in others the capacity to dream.

Leadership is the dream made reality.

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

Many times when people have a vision, they think in terms of a big vision - I want to take my city for Christ. But the problem with many pastors and this type of vision is this: they haven't developed the strategy to fulfill that vision. A pastor preaches a dream or vision to his/her people, they get excited for a week, a month, or a couple of months, but there is no strategy, planning, or process to fulfill that vision.

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

Dreams require down payments. Dreams are free, but the journey isn't. There is a price to pay. When you find your why you'll find your way. When you develop your will you will embark on your way. Many people start; few people finish. Many people have a dream; few people achieve their dreams.

For pastors who have a dream and who are walking in obedience but still don't have the resources they need, don't worry. Keep walking in obedience.

If you have great people around you, they will take you higher than your dream will. Leaders are never self-made. Those closest to you determine your level of success, so choosing the right companions as partners in pursuit of your vision is an important decision. My advice is to surround yourself with talented people who will challenge you, help you grow and inspire you to maximize your potential.

Never allow others to put obstacles in the pathway of your dreams

To achieve all that is possible, we must attempt the impossible. To be all we can be, we must dream of being more.

To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.

We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to the process.

If I'm halfway to the dream, at best, half of my resources are there. Your resources to fulfill the dream will come during the last step of the dream.

A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential

Only those who see their dream are able to seize their dream.

A person who has a dream knows what he is willing to give up in order to go up.

God has never given anybody a dream that He did not want that person to fulfill.

Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for inspiration. 4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity. 5) Dream big. 6) Plan your priorities. 7) Give up to go up.

God has never given a dream that could be fulfilled at step one. So start walking, be obedient, and watch God fulfill that dream in your life.

We cannot achieve our wildest dreams by remaining who we are

A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large extent, by your habits.

Why would God send people to our church if we don't have a great dream? Why would God give a multigifted, multitalented, and multifinancially wealthy person to a church if the biggest thing you are going to do is paint the restrooms next year? That's bad stewardship.

At the beginning, all we have is the vision. At that point God expects us to begin walking in obedience according to the dream He has given us.

If your habits don't line up with your dream, then you need to either change your habits or change your dream

God gives us resources according to our dreams and according to our obedience. And God doesn't give those resources until we've started walking in obedience.

People must learn how to think well to achieve their dreams and to reach their potential.

When contemplating the pursuit of a dream or the start of a new venture, too many people are hesitant to begin because they can't comprehend the entire journey. If that's where you find yourself right now, don't expect to understand what it takes to get to the top. Just take the next step. There's no shame in starting small; in fact, if you don't start small, you'll probably never start at all.

When the dream is right for the person and the person is right for the dream, the two cannot be separated from each other.

A dream is an inspiring picture of the future that energizes your mind, will, and emotions, empowering you to do everything you can to achieve it.

The leader finds the dream and then the people. The people find the leader and then the dream.

Goals not only help you develop initial motivation by making your dreams obtainable, but they also help you continue to be motivated and that creates momentum.

Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.

Dreams don't work unless you do

If you want to achieve great things, you need to have a great dream.

One of the best ways to cultivate a possibility mind set is to prompt yourself to dream one size bigger than you normally do. Let's face it, most people dream too small, they don't think big enough.

Nobody wanders his or her way to a dream, and nobody achieves a dream by accident. Don't shortcut the process and risk cheating yourself out of your dream!

We have to pilot our own dreams - we cannot entrust them to anyone else.

A nightmare is a big dream....with a bad team.

Your teammates will stretch your vision or choke your dream.