God had to break Jacob to make him useful. In the breaking process, Jacob – the deceiving “heel-catcher” – became Israel, a “prince with God” who purposed to serve God rather than himself. Natural leaders often need to be broken. Consider your natural ability to lead a gift from God, but your character a gift to present back to God. Remember: Every time you stand up under the weight of adversity, you are being prepared, as Jacob was, to better serve God and lead people.

— John C. Maxwell

John C. Maxwell Quotes

This is true. What a man is survives him. It can.

— John C. Maxwell

More than anything else, what keeps a person going in the midst of adversity is having a sense of purpose. It is the fuel that powers persistence.

— John C. Maxwell

You may have a million reasons not to get started now. In a month or a year or five years from now, you may have only one regret – that you didn’t start now.

— John C. Maxwell

If you’re proactive, you focus on preparing. If you’re reactive, you end up focusing on repairing.

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And you will have greater credibility with your leader if you admit your shortcomings and refrain from making excuses.

— John C. Maxwell

Charlie Brower said, “A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow.” Negative environments kill thousands of great ideas every minute.

— John C. Maxwell

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an invasion of ideas.” – Victor Hugo.

— John C. Maxwell

The happiest day of your life will be the day when you realize “we” really is the most important word in the English language.

— John C. Maxwell

The first law of holes says, “When you are in one, stop digging.

— John C. Maxwell

May thinking become your greatest tool for creating the world you desire.

— John C. Maxwell

When an archer misses the mark he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull’s-eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim, improve yourself.

— John C. Maxwell

Asking and hearing people’s opinions has a greater effect on them than telling them, ‘Good job.’ ” – Sam Walton.

— John C. Maxwell

One of the reasons that problem solving is so difficult is that we are often too close to the problems to truly understand them.

— John C. Maxwell

A deaf ear is the first indication of a closed mind.

— John C. Maxwell

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for someone else. – BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

— John C. Maxwell

Napoleon Hill said, “It’s not what you are going to do, but it’s what you are doing right now that counts.

— John C. Maxwell

Failure isn’t failure if you do better the next time.

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As Michel de Montaigne observed, “No wind favors him who has no destined port.

— John C. Maxwell

If you want people to remember what you say, you need to say the right thing at the right moment in the right way!

— John C. Maxwell

Learning to pause and ask questions turns experience into insight.

— John C. Maxwell

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