Quote

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

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
Making
Others
Excuses
Excuse
Leadership
Taking
Responsibility

More quotes by John C. Maxwell

Image
Experience isn't the best teacher - evaluated experience is.
John C. Maxwell
Image
It's lonely at the top, so you better know why you are there.
John C. Maxwell
Image
To gain credibility, you must consistently demonstrate three things: Initiative: You have to get up to go up. Sacrifice: You have to give up to go up. Maturity: You have to grow up to go up. If you show the way, people will want to follow you. The higher you go, the greater the number of people who will be willing to travel with you.
John C. Maxwell
Image
The greatest detriment to many people's success tomorrow is their thinking today.
John C. Maxwell
Image
One way to overcome our natural self-centeredness is to try to see things from other people's perspectives.
John C. Maxwell
Image
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker
John C. Maxwell
Image
People's purpose in life is always connected to their giftedness.
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
Find something you like to do so much that you would gladly do it for nothing then learn to do it so well that people are happy to pay you for it.
John C. Maxwell
Image
Want to impress others? Talk about your successes. Want to impact others? Talk about your failures.
John C. Maxwell
Image
Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.
John C. Maxwell
Image
Always take the high road.
John C. Maxwell
Image
Leaders never outgrow the need to change.
John C. Maxwell
Image
You will never be able to bet on yourself unless you believe in yourself.
John C. Maxwell
Image
Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thought.
John C. Maxwell
Image
I wrote the book [Today Matters] because I have a passion to help people personally grow. Really what it is, it's a personal growth book.
John C. Maxwell
Image
While we don't always get what we want, we always get what we choose.
John C. Maxwell
Image
Unless you want to carry the whole load yourself, you need to be developing leaders.
John C. Maxwell
Image
Encouragement is oxygen for the soul
John C. Maxwell
Image
What you give to help others, builds them up enough that they are able to give to others. It's a cycle that can continue on long after you're dead and gone.
John C. Maxwell