Famous Quotes & Sayings

John C. Maxwell

If your desire is to be successful or to make a positive impact on your world, you need to become a person of influence.

John C. Maxwell

You must develop yourself to be successful

John C. Maxwell

True success comes only when every generation continues to develop the next generation.

John C. Maxwell

If you aren't making any mistakes, it's a sure sign you're playing it too safe.

John C. Maxwell

Nothing separates successful people from unsuccessful people more than how they use their time!

John C. Maxwell

Have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must start with sowing excellent thoughts.

John C. Maxwell

A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. Few things in life are better than seeing people realize their potential. If you invest in people by helping individuals improve themselves, showing them the way to their “right place”, they will never be the same again. And neither will you. It is impossible to help others without helping yourself.

John C. Maxwell

To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.

John C. Maxwell

Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.

John C. Maxwell

The person who does only what he must when he is in the mood or when it's convenient isn't going to be successful.

John C. Maxwell

True success is obeying God.

John C. Maxwell

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

John Adams

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Jack Welch

One of the ways we'll know that Work-Out has been successful is that my style of leadership will no longer be tolerated in this company.

Jack Welch

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

Harvey Mackay

You can't learn anything if you are doing all the talking. Sales people should always be developing their earQ, not their IQ. The only way to create a successful sale is to understand that knowledge from listening does not become power until it is used. And ideas without action are worthless.

Harvey Mackay

If I had to name the single characteristic shared by all truly successful individuals, I’d say it’s the ability to create and nurture a network of contacts.

Harvey Mackay

The truth is, success often occurs for reasons we don't expect, under circumstances over which we have little control and sometimes unrelated to our own efforts. There is only one other lesson that success should teach us: Be as amazed by your own success as your friends are. If you truly are, you stand the best chance to repeat it.

Harvey Mackay

Direct your energy toward achieving a goal, and tackle the problems with an emphasis on edging closer to a successful result.

Harvey Mackay

Southwest Airlines is successful because the company understands it's a customer service company. It also happens to be an airline.

Harvey Mackay

The first successful salesperson was not a man, it was Eve.

Harvey Mackay

It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

Harvey Mackay

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.

James Madison

An alliance or coalition between Government and religion cannot be too carefully guarded against......Every new and successful example therefore of a PERFECT SEPARATION between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance........religion and government will exist in greater purity, without (rather) than with the aid of government.

James MacArthur

But it's hard to sustain a successful acting career today.

James M. Barrie

One's religion is whatever he is most interested in.

Joe Paterno

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

Joe Perry

You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that can sustain themselves.

Joe Rogan

Being a celebrity or anything else where you're really ambitious, it's really a game to see how successful you can get.

Joan Ganz Cooney

Probably any successful career has X number of breaks in it, and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't super achievers is taking advantage of those breaks.

Joan Jett

I consider that success for anything, whether it's being a musician or a writer. As long as you can support yourself, you're successful. People need to change their idea of what success is.

Erik Qualman

We don't have a choice on whether we DO social media, the question is how well we do it.

Eric Thomas

I've never wanted to be a doctor, I've never wanted to be an engineer, I've never had that goal, but when you're around people who are successful, you kind of feel some type of way like, I don't want to be a doctor or lawyer but I do want to be successful.