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A highly credible leader under-promises and over-delivers.

A highly credible leader under-promises and over-delivers.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Promise, Credibility

Teams make you better than you are, multiply your value, enable you to do what you do best, allow you to help others do their best, give you more time, provide you with companionship, help you fulfill the desires of your heart and compound your vision and effort.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Teamwork, Heart

Coming together is a beginning, and staying together is progress, but only when teams sweat together do they find success.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Teamwork, Sweat

Every relationship in your organization will affect you one way or another. Those who do not increase you will inevitably decrease you.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Organization, Way

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Communication, Simple
John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”, p.23, HarperCollins Leadership

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Trying, Firsts
John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.162, Thomas Nelson Inc

Confront your inadequacies and push your personal boundaries: It's the surest way to grow, improve and expand the scope of your influence.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Way, Influence

Leadership is influence.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Leader, Influence
John C. Maxwell (2014). “How to Influence People Lunch & Learn”, BookBaby

Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Irreplaceable, Valuable

Leaders have two characteristics: first they are going somewhere, and second they are able to persuade other people to go with them.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Two, People
John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.52, Thomas Nelson

If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Followers, Raises

The first order of things to be changed is me, the leader. After I consider how hard it is to change myself, then I will understand the challenge of trying to change others. This is the ultimate test of leadership.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Order, Challenges
John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.40, Thomas Nelson Inc

Openness by the leader paves the way for ownership by the people. Without ownership, changes will be short term. Changing people's habits and ways of thinking is like writing instructions in the snow during a snowstorm. Every twenty minutes the instructions must be rewritten, unless ownership is given along with instructions.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Writing, Thinking
John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.54, Thomas Nelson Inc

Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Real, Persons
John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc

Leaders never outgrow the need to change.

John C. Maxwell
Inspirational, Leadership, Needs
FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Aug 30, 2016

Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Character, People

Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.

John C. Maxwell
Inspirational, Leadership, People
John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc

Be generous, be humble, and be grateful when achieving your dreams.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Dream, Grateful

He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Walks, Following
John C. Maxwell (2013). “Be A People Person: Effective Leadership Through Effective Relationships”, p.78, David C Cook

A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. By John Maxwell

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Successful, Maxwell
John C. Maxwell (2011). “The Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You”, Thomas Nelson

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Noble, Longing

Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Character, Foundation
John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Law of Solid Ground: Lesson 6 from The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership”, p.9, Thomas Nelson Inc

A leader who produces other leaders multiples their influences.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Team Building, Influence

Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Attitude, Emotional

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it's almost always due to personal growth.

John C. Maxwell
Leadership, Growth, Succeed

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