John C. Maxwell Quotes

Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me'.

Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.

Positive thinking will let you use the abilities, training and experience you have.

Small steps can help people make big changes to achieve what they really desire. That wish isn't going to go anywhere unless you do something about it. Every day, just do one thing. At the end of six months, you'll be somewhere.

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am.

Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared.

The greatest step toward success is self confidence. The greatest builder of self confidence is self esteem, and self esteem comes from doing the daily things you know you should do. Your self esteem will start to soar when you make some critical decisions - decisions to walk a new road, to start a new direction, to start a new discipline.

No failure is final unless you ratify it.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

Challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. I believe that ambition and initiative will ultimately triumph.

When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know that you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited.

If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

There is no reason not to be motivated. You cannot always be the best. But you can do your best.

If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

Successful people believe in the validity of their own dreams and goals, even if dreams are all they have to go on.

Perhaps the most important thing I could say is to never be thrown by failure and mistakes. Each and everything that happens, even if it was not what you hoped would happen, is a valuable, life-learning tool. And you will only achieve success if you know how to learn from your failures and mistakes. It’s vital.

Failure means you've now learned another valuable lesson that pushes you one step closer to success.

Success is buried on the other side of rejection.

Just believe in yourself and work really hard. And when doors open, take advantage of every opportunity you can.

If you don't think you can do it, who will? You control the most important tool in success, your mind.

Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.