Quote

When you find your spiritual gift, God will give you an opportunity to use it.

John C. Maxwell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John C. Maxwell
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 20
Author
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Garden City
Michigan
John Maxwell
John Calvin Maxwell
Gift
Opportunity
Spiritual
Use
Give
Find
Giving

More quotes by John C. Maxwell

Image
Achievement comes to someone when he is able to do great things for himself. Success comes when he empowers followers to do great things with him. Significance comes when he develops leaders to do great things for him. But a legacy is created only when a person puts his organization into the position to do great things without him.
John C. Maxwell
Image
The true test of relationships is not only how loyal someone is when we fail, but how thrilled they are when we succeed.
John C. Maxwell
Image
Tomorrow really will take care of itself if I do the right thing today.
John C. Maxwell
Image
When I made that statement that the person discovers the secret of their success by their daily agenda, all of a sudden it hit me that if I could teach people to make today count if I could really teach them what they need to do today to have a good day, that tomorrow would really take care of itself.
John C. Maxwell
Image
Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.
John C. Maxwell
Image
Anyone can steer a ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course
John C. Maxwell
Image
The more credible you are, the more confidence people place in you, thereby allowing you the privilege of influencing their lives.
John C. Maxwell
Image
If your vision doesn't cost you something, it's a daydream.
John C. Maxwell
Image
The secret of successful people lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.
John C. Maxwell
Image
Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.
John C. Maxwell
Image
Earn the right to be heard by listening to others. Seek to understand a situation before making judgments about it.
John C. Maxwell
Image
It was in the mid-70's, '74 or '75 I started doing leadership conferences for pastors and in '79 I wrote my first book Think On These Things.
John C. Maxwell
Image
Failure is not a one-time event it's how you deal with life along the way. Until you breathe your last breath, you're still in the process, and there is still time to turn things around for the better.
John C. Maxwell
Image
Great leaders understand that the right attitude will set the right atmosphere, which enables the right response from others.
John C. Maxwell
Image
People go farther than they thought they could when someone else thinks they can.
John C. Maxwell
Image
No matter your title, people will not follow you if they don’t trust you. Whether you are just taking over a team or working to implement large-scale change within one, you are guaranteed to run into resistance if you haven’t taken time to establish a foundation with the people you oversee before turning their worlds upside down.
John C. Maxwell
Image
It's better to give ideas away and contribute to another person's success than to have them lying dormant.
John C. Maxwell
Image
Cooperation is working together agreeably... Collaboration is working together aggressively and theres a world of difference between those two.
John C. Maxwell
Image
Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated experience teaches everything.
John C. Maxwell
Image
If you are in a leadership position, do not rely on your title to convince people to follow you. Build relationships. Win people over. Do that and you will never be a lonely leader.
John C. Maxwell