Famous Person 1: John C Maxwell inspirational quotes

John Calvin Maxwell (born 1947) is an evangelical Christian author, speaker, and pastor who has written many books, primarily focusing on leadership. He is an internationally recognized leadership expert, speaker, and author who has sold over 12 million books. His organizations have trained more than 2 million leaders worldwide. Dr. Maxwell is the founder of INJOY, Maximum Impact, ISS and EQUIP, an international leadership development organization working to help leaders. EQUIP is involved with leaders from more than 80 nations. Its mission is “to see effective Christian leaders fulfill the Great Commission in every nation.”

The following are some of his inspirational quotes. Enjoy!

"Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it."

"The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up."

"Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish."

"People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision."

"If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone."

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."

"A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position."

"A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him."

"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them."

"A leader lives with people to know their problems. A leader lives with God in order to solve them."

"True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not to enrich the leader."

Quotes 2: Servant Leadership Inspirational quotes

Servant leadership starts by the person being a servant first. He/ she must first learn to serve before taking on a leadership position. Servant leaders focus on the well-being and individual growth of the followers. People will not follow a leader until he/she shows genuine interest in them.

The following are some encouraging quotes on servant leadership. Enjoy!

We are here to add what we can to, not get what we can from life.
- Sir William Osler


We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead."
- William Arthur Ward


Servant-leadership is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don't work for you, you work for them.
-Ken Blanchard


The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve the leader, but the number of people served by the leader.
- John C. Maxwell


A person who is worthy of being a leader wants power not for himself, but in order to be of service.
- US Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr.


Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
- Marian Anderson


A Godly Leader finds strength by realizing his weakness, finds authority by being under authority, finds direction by laying down his own plans, finds vision by seeing the needs of others, finds credibility by being an example, finds loyalty by expressing compassion, finds honor by being faithful, finds greatness by being a servant.
- Roy Lessin

Quotes 1: Leadership inspirational quotes

The following are some Leadership inspirational quotes that have inspired me! Enjoy!:

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight Eisenhower

Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.
- Jesse Jackson

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
- John C. Maxwell

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt

In matters of style, swim with the current;
In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- T. Jefferson

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
- Blaine Lee

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
- Henry Kissinger

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
- Sandra Carey

The best example of leadership is leadership by example.
- Jerry McClain

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy


The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
- Warren Bennis

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
- Rosalynn Carter

Good leaders must first become good servants.
- Robert Greenleaf

Encouraging and Inspirational Quotes

The following are some of my favourite inspirational quotes. May they inspire you!

Every artist was first an amateur.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
- Horace Bushnell

Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
       - George S. Patton 

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir 

Attitude determines altitude - Anonymous

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
       - Eleanor Roosevelt  

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle 

The best way out is always through.
- Robert Frost 

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
 -Eleanor Roosevelt  

We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.
- Winston Churchill

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm - Winston Churchill

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
     -Mark Twain

 Courage faces fear and thereby masters it
      - Martin Luther King, Jr