Quotes about Community
The problems around us are not as crucial as the people.
- John Maxwell
To be significant, all you have to do is make a difference with others wherever you are, with whatever you have, day by day.
- John Maxwell
When you intentionally use your everyday life to bring about positive change in the lives of others, you begin to live a life that matters.
- John Maxwell
A TABLE: FEW TO MANY—IT ENABLES GROWTH The birth of transformation starts in the heart of an individual, and the growth of the movement happens around a table. Mass movements don't begin with the masses. They begin with a few people. When people can sit around the table together as equal contributors, everyone wins.
- John Maxwell
DO SOMETHING TODAY TO CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT OF AFFIRMATION.
- John Maxwell
The common experiences you share with others don't have to be that dramatic (although adversity definitely brings people together). Anything you experience together that creates a common history helps to connect you to others.
- John Maxwell
No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.
- John Maxwell
Despite his business success, Nabi keeps everything in perspective. When we were at the conference together, Nabi told me, "We aren't in the coffee business, serving people. We're in the people business, serving coffee.
- John Maxwell
The writer of Proverbs observed that sharp people sharpen one another, just as iron sharpens iron. If you want to be a sharp thinker, be around sharp people.
- John Maxwell
5. Anybody who helps somebody influences a lot of bodies. What you give to one person overflows into the lives of all the people that person impacts. The nature of influence is to multiply.
- John Maxwell
THE HEART OF LEADERSHIP IS BASED ON SERVING OTHERS, NOT OURSELVES.
- John Maxwell
Charles Schwab: Be friends with everybody. When you have friends you will know there is somebody who will stand by you. You know the old saying, that if you have a single enemy you will find him everywhere. It doesn't pay to make enemies. Lead the life that will make you kind and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.
- John Maxwell