John C. Maxwell Quotes

Whomever it is you were born to be, whatever your soul was coded to accomplish, whatever lessons you were born to learn, now is the time to get serious and get going.

If you've done what you need to do, you need to go bury yourself, because what else are you going to do? I think that that's where life stops.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

Not just whether but how we find our way truly matters.

I know where I was before, and I know where I want to go.

Explorers depend on the North Star when there are no other landmarks in sight. The same relationship exists between you and your right life, the ultimate realization of your potential for happiness. I believe that a knowledge of that perfect life sits inside you just as the North Star sits in its unaltering spot.

If, in moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who you were, and what you were doing, and start from there.

What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?

You don't always have to know who you are. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what to do next.

Follow your compass, not your clock.

Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

Her clarity gave her purpose and her purpose gave her clarity.

The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?'

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.

A lot of people are simply interested in exploring their own spirituality, their own values, who they are, whether they're happy where they are.

The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

We can all afford to do a little soul-searching about the choices we make and the way we live our lives, but sometimes searching one's soul doesn't provide the answers we seek.