John C. Maxwell Quotes

If you are willing to change your thinking, you can change your feelings. If you change your feelings, you can change your actions. And changing your actions - based on good thinking - can change your life.

You can't think your way into acting positively, but you can act your way into thinking positively.

When you change your thinking, you change actions, when you change your action you change your future.

What you do makes you better at what you think. What you think makes you more effective at what you do.

You can develop any habit or thought or behavior that you consider desirable or necessary.

I have full faith in people. I think that we have the ability to change. We're habitual creatures. Once we figure out that bad habit and identify it, whether it's behavioral or whatever it may be, we change our habits. Obviously, I'm simplifying it and making it sound very easy to do, and we all know it's very difficult, but it's doable.

For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.

Knowing that one is always capable of change, the second step lies in making the decision to change. Change does not occur by merely willing it anymore than behavior changes simply through insight.

You change your life by changing your heart.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

Before a person can achieve the kind of life he wants, he must think, act, walk, talk and conduct himself in all of his affairs as would the person he wishes to become.

Successful people...focus on the rewards of success: learning from their mistakes and thinking about how they can improve themselves and their situations.

Change your way of thinking, change your way of doing, change your way of choosing.

Change can come in either of two important ways: Start behaving positively or stop behaving negatively.

The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.

I don’t really do New Year’s resolutions because I don’t think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you’ve got a problem, you need to fix it now.

Dream Big. Start small. Act now.

Improve your performance by improving your attitude.

You have to CHANGE the way you THINK in order to CHANGE the way you FEEL

People don't change who they are. They only change what they do with it.

We can be the best taught people on the face of the earth but the trouble is we don't live as well as we have been taught.

the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first.

Learning is the first step in making positive changes within yourself. Other factors are conviction, determination, action & effort. Learning & education help develop conviction about the need to change & increase your commitment. Conviction then develops into determination. Next, strong determination leads to action: a sustained effort to implement the changes. This final factor of effort is critical.