“If you wait until you can do everything for everybody, instead of something for somebody, you’ll end up not doing anything for anybody.” -MALCOLM BANE From "Everyone Communicates, Few Connect" by John C. Maxwell
I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism. - Charles Schwab
Missionary Adoniram Judson is rumored to have said, “There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.” - John C. Maxwell in Leadershift
Few of us manage to go through life without collecting a group of individuals who would not be sorry to learn we have died. - Dallas Willard in The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
Higher calling matters. When you care so deeply about the why—why you’re doing what you’re doing—then and only then are you operating in a way that allows you to overcome the obstacles. - Dave Ramsey
“Posterity who are to reap the blessings,” wrote Abigail Adams, “will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.” - David McCullough in The Course of Human Events
Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization. - Noel Tichy in The Leadership Engine
Good leaders inspire others only to the extent that they inspire themselves. - John C. Maxwell in The Leader's Greatest Return: Attracting, Developing, and Multiplying Leaders
If we can stop wanting to be in first place, we will be more like Jesus. - John C. Maxwell in Jesus, The High Road Leader: Follow the Path He Wants Us to Travel