John C. Maxwell Quotes

Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.

Not everyone will become a great leader, but everyone can become a better leader.

My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

I began my journey as a captain when I was just 21-22 and leading the Indian side for so many years has helped me also grow as a person. My growth as a person pretty much has happened on the ground along with teammates.

If you want leaders, you must become a leader yourself!

We are not all leaders. We are called leaders.

Leaders are not born or made - they are self made

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

Blame is a neat little device that you can use whenever you don't want to take responsibility for something in your life. Use it and you will avoid all risks and impede your own growth.

Though every human being on the planet has an inclination for leadership, most of us do not have the courage to cultivate it.

If your a leader, do everything you can to grow yourself and create the right environment for others to grow.

All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others.

Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves

You have to choose to manifest your leadership nature.

You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else.

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'

It is every one's sacred duty to keep himself in a condition to do the biggest thing possible to him.

I've learned that you have to take responsibility for yourself in this game and lead yourself through it.

Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise what you do, praise yourself. When your boss doesn't make you big, make yourself big. Remember, if you have done your best, failure does not count.

I would assert that highly effective leaders are made more than they're born. Every leader I know who's been highly effective has worked hard at it, and they've been students of it. The more you're a student of leadership, the more you figure out what works for you and the more effective you're going to be.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

Great Presidents are made and not born. They have to be pushed into greatness.