John C. Maxwell Quotes

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

Only you can determine your choice of attitude. Choose wisely, choose carefully, choose confidently!

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Attitude determines choice, and choice determines results. All that we are, and all that we can become has indeed been left unto us.

I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.'

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

I think the future is whatever I'm willing to make it.

Life is what you make of it. You can make it easy on yourself or you can make it hard.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

I think people, for the most part, actually want what they think is best.

You always do what you want to do. This is true with every act. You may say that you had to do something, or that you were forced to, but actually, whatever you do, you do by choice. Only you have the power to choose for yourself.

Every man is the son of his own works.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.

We are all, right now, living the life we choose.

Take hold of your future or the future will take hold of you

It's up to the individual to make the best of what life has dealt.

Everyone has to run their own race and make their own decisions.

You are the only thing holding you back from happiness. You have the ability to change your life radically for better or worse.

No one can decide what you should do, what course of action you should take to get where you wanna go, except for yourself.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

In these words lies all his power: He chose the path along which he is walking and so has no complaints.

Every man today is the result of his thoughts yesterday.

Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.