How to prepare someone for leadership:I do it. I do it and you watch. You do it and I watch. You do it. You do it and someone else watches.

— John C. Maxwell

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

— John C. Maxwell

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous - is changed by it.

— John C. Maxwell

If you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.

— John C. Maxwell

If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them.

— John C. Maxwell

If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.

— John C. Maxwell

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.

— John C. Maxwell

In most cases, those who want power probably shouldn't have it, those who enjoy it probably do so for the wrong reasons, and those who want most to hold on to it don't understand that it's only temporary.

— John C. Maxwell

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

— John C. Maxwell

It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.

— John C. Maxwell