Quotes about Growth
Persian poet Saadi instructed, "Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy." That's wise advice. Most people never realize how close they are to achieving significant things, because they give up too soon. Everything worthwhile in life takes dedication and time. The people who grow and achieve the most are the ones who harness the power of patience and persistence.
— John Maxwell
Leadership is developed, not discovered. It's a process.
— John Maxwell
Before I discovered that helping myself made me more capable of helping others. That's one of the reasons I tell people that to add value to others, they must make themselves more valuable. You can't give something you don't have. You can't tell what you don't know. You can't share what you don't feel. No one gives out of a vacuum.
— John Maxwell
Stopping to reflect is one of the most valuable activities people can do to grow.
— John Maxwell
Effective leaders who reach their potential spend more time focusing on what they do well than on what they do wrong. To be successful, focus on your strengths and develop them. That's where you should pour your time, energy, and resources.
— John Maxwell
If you could pick only one word to describe yourself, what would it be?
— John Maxwell
The Higher the Level of Leadership, the Greater the Sacrifice: The higher you go, the more it's going to cost you. And it doesn't matter what kind of leadership career you pick. You will have to make sacrifices. You will have to give up to go up.
— John Maxwell
Achievement comes from the habit of good thinking.
— John Maxwell
Learn as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow.
— John Maxwell
to act on what you learn is all that really matters.
— John Maxwell
The only way to change how you view life is to change who you are on the inside.
— John Maxwell
The problem promise: when you handle them well, problems promise to make you better.
— John Maxwell