John C. Maxwell Quotes

Man needs difficulties. They are necessary for health.

From adversity we can learn the value of patience.

No matter what your circumstances are, whether you are in prosperity or in adversity, you can learn from every person, transaction, and circumstance around you.

You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.

For me, I try to see difficulties as a way of expanding and growing as a person inhabiting this planet.

We don't grow as human beings from good things happening. We grow from failures.

The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

All life battles teach us something, even those we lose

From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.

A setback is never a bad experience, just another one of life’s lessons.

Your current situations or problems have been sent to you to teach you valuable lessons for success and happiness. What are they?

Without difficulties, life would be like a stream without rocks and curves – about as interesting as concrete. Without problems, there can be no personal growth, no group achievement, no progress of humanity. But what mattes about problems is what one does with them.

Be grateful for challenges because... Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then [each woman and] man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture.

As a player and a coach, I've had plenty of great moments, but I've also experienced disappointments. The disappointments are not about self-doubt, but rather about change. I've always seen failures as a personal challenge. I say to myself: Now I have to find out if I have the right stuff.

We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.

By facing our challenges and overcoming them, we grow stronger, wiser, and more compassionate.

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success.

I like challenges and I don't believe in failure. I don't believe in regrets. I believe suffering, failure - all those concepts - are things that are absolutely necessary to make us the best people that we can be, the best at whatever we want to do.

What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

If you learn life's lessons, you will do well. If not, life will just continue to push you around. People do two things. Some just let life push them around. Others get angry and push back. But they push back against their boss, or their job, or their husband or wife. They do not know it's life that's pushing.

Everything that happens helps you grow, even if its hard to see right now.

What I had been taught all my life was not true: experience is not the best teacher! Some people learn and grow as a result of their experience; some people don't. Everybody has some kind of experience. It's what you do with that experience that matters.

I don't have any problems in life, just situations.

Unfortunately, it is human nature for us to only learn and grow from a place of emptiness. It's hard to learn when we are winning and on top of the world.

I have a lot of insecurities, but you learn from your failures.