Showing posts with label Leadership Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leadership Quotes. Show all posts

Monday, September 05, 2016

15 More Top Quotes from John Maxwell's "The 360 Degree Leader"

"Short as life is, we make it still shorter 
by the careless waste of time." 
- Victor Hugo

"The key to personal development 
is being more growth oriented than goal oriented." 
- John Maxwell

"I don't think much of a man 
who is not wiser today than he was yesterday." 
- Abraham Lincoln

"The difference between what we do 
and what we are capable of doing 
would suffice to solve most of the world's problems."
 - Mahatma Gandhi

"You can't change where you started, 
but you can change the direction you are going. 
It's not what you are going to do, 
but it's what you are doing now that counts." 
- Napoleon Hill

"The most important single ingredient in the 
formula of success is knowing how 
to get along with people." 
- Theodore Roosevelt

"Your best friend is he who brings out 
the best that is within you." 
- Henry Ford

"When the eagles are silent, 
the parrots begin to jabber." 
- Winston Churchill

"People are like rubber bands. 
They are most valuable when they are stretched, 
not when they are at rest."  
- John Maxwell

"Relationship building is always 
the foundation of effective leadership."  
- John Maxwell

"Leaders aren't necessarily the first to cross the finish line 
- people who run alone are the fastest. 
Leaders are the first to bring all of their people 
across the finish line." 
- John Maxwell

"You never really know something 
until you teach it to someone else." 
- John Maxwell

"Any business or industry that pays equal rewards 
to its goof-offs and its eager beavers 
sooner or later will find itself with more goof-offs 
than eager beavers." 
- Mick Delaney

"I've never known a person focused on yesterday 
to have a better tomorrow." 
- John Maxwell

"The only conquests which are permanent 
and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves." 
- Napoleon Bonaparte








Top Ten Leadership Quotes from John Maxwell's "The 360 Degree Leader"


"The bottom line is this: 
Leadership is a choice you make, 
not a place you sit. 
Anyone can choose to become a leader 
wherever he is. 
You can make a difference 
no matter where you are."
 - John Maxwell

"Good leaders rarely think in 
terms of boundaries; 
instead, they think in 
terms of opportunities." 
- John Maxwell

"True heroism is remarkably sober, 
very undramatic. 
It is not the urge to surpass all 
others at whatever cost, 
but the urge to serve others 
at whatever the cost." 
- Arthur Ashe

"Some of us will do our jobs well, 
and some will not. 
But we will all be judged by 
only one thing - the result." 
- Vince Lombardi 

"I will go anywhere provided it's forward." 
- David Livingstone

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, 
that can gather strength from distress, 
and grow brave by reflection. 
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, 
but he whose heart is firm, 
and whose conscience approves his conduct, 
will pursue his principles unto death." 
- Thomas Paine

"Until you value yourself, 
you won't value your time. 
Until you value your time, 
you won't do anything with it." 
- M. Scott Peck

"Leaders can give up many things. 
They can delegate many things. 
The one thing that the top leader 
can never let go of 
is final responsibility." 
- John Maxwell

"You learn resiliency and tenacity during 
tough assignments, not easy ones. 
When tough choices have to be made 
and results are difficult to achieve, 
leaders are forged." 
- John Maxwell

"The secret of success in life 
is for a man to be ready 
for his time when it comes." 
- Benjamin Disraeli