In my experience, followers always ask leaders 3 questions: 1) Do you care 4 me? 2) Can you help me? 3) Can I trust you? John C. Maxwell More Quotes by John C. Maxwell More Quotes From John C. Maxwell If you want to help others and become a person of influence, keep smiling, sharing, giving, and turning the other cheek. John C. Maxwell keep-smiling helping-others giving Leaders provide for their people what the people cannot provide for themselves. John C. Maxwell leader people The real test of leadership isn't where you start out. It's where you end up. John C. Maxwell tests real leadership Until I understand where I am, I can’t get to where I am going. This is the value of a compass when we are out walking or hiking and need to know we’re going in the right direction. But we also have an internal North Star. It’s that little nudge that tells us if we are on the right path to fulfilling our potential, or on the wrong path wasting energy traveling somewhere we don’t need to go. So my advice to you is, pull out that compass every once in a while and make sure you are navigating in the right direction on your journey. John C. Maxwell hiking stars journey When a leader reaches out in passion, he is usually met with an answering passion. John C. Maxwell mets passion leader When you reflect, you are able to put an experience into perspective... reflective thinking enables you to distance yourself from the intense emotions of particularly good or bad experiences and see them with fresh eyes. John C. Maxwell distance eye inspirational Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean giving up familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, and relationships that have lost their meaning. John C. Maxwell giving-up leadership mean You are the only person who can label what you do a failure. Failure is subjective. John C. Maxwell labels failure leadership Integrity is the factor that determines which one will prevail. We struggle daily with situations that demand decisions between what we want to do and what we ought to do. Integrity establishes the ground rules for resolving these tensions. it determines who we are and how we will respond before the conflict even appears. Integrity welds what we say, think, and do, into a whole person so that permission is never granted for one of these to be out of sync. John C. Maxwell struggle integrity thinking All things being equal, attitude wins. All things not being equal, attitude sometimes still wins. John C. Maxwell winning attitude sometimes Have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must start with sowing excellent thoughts. John C. Maxwell sowing excellent success Your teammates will stretch your vision or choke your dream. John C. Maxwell teammate vision dream Positivity is an inside job that makes the outside look a lot better. John C. Maxwell positivity jobs looks Sometimes we hold on to our possessions because we fear we might run out - life seems scarce. But when we believe that giving is the way to live, we will produce more in the future - life seems abundant. John C. Maxwell generosity running believe There is a world of difference between a person who has a big problem and a person who makes a problem big. John C. Maxwell differences attitude world The first step to leadership is servanthood. John C. Maxwell leadership steps firsts People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. Many people who approach the area of vision in leadership have it backwards. They believe that if the cause is good enough, people will automatically buy in and follow. But that's not how leadership works. People don't follow worthy causes; they follow worthy leaders with a cause they can believe in. They buy into the leader first. John C. Maxwell leader believe people Others are Ahead of me. I am continually Challenged. My focus is Forward. The atmosphere is Affirming. I am often out of my Comfort Zone. I wake up Excited. Failure is not my Enemy. Others are Growing. People desire Change. Growth is Modeled and Expected. John C. Maxwell atmosphere focus people You are only an attitude away from success! John C. Maxwell attitude No matter your title, people will not follow you if they don’t trust you. John C. Maxwell titles matter people
