John C. Maxwell Want Quotations

Unless you want to carry the whole load yourself, you need to be developing leaders.

If you want to become a better listener, however you need to learn to direct that energy and attention positively by concentrating on the person you're with.

Connecting is vital for any person who wants to achieve success. It is essential for anyone who wants to build great relationships. You will only be able to reach your potential-regar dless of your profession or chosen path-when you learn to connect with other people.

If you want to do something really big, do it as part of a team.

A good leader encourages followers to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to hear.

In most cases, those who want power probably shouldn't have it, those who enjoy it probably do so for the wrong reasons, and those who want most to hold on to it don't understand that it's only temporary.

Nothing speaks like results. If you want to build the kind of credibility that connects with people, then deliver results before you deliver a message. Get out and do what you advise others to do. Communicate from experience.

Competence goes beyond words. It's the leader's ability to say it, plan it, and do it in such a way that others know that you know how - and know that they want to follow you.

If you want to attract people, you need to be like people you enjoy being with.

If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.

I'm not where I'm supposed to be, I'm not what I want to be, But I'm not what I used to be. I haven't learned how to arrive; I've just learned how to keep going

If you don’t try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get.

The $50 note trick - ask who wants it even after stomping on it - moral is, no matter what we do to it it is still worth $50. We as human beings never lose our value either despite feeling down, flat or worthless at times.

If you want leaders, you must become a leader yourself!

If you want to make your mother happy, talk to her. If you want to make your father happy, listen.

If you want to keep giving you have to keep growing.

While we don't always get what we want, we always get what we choose.

Want to impress others? Talk about your successes. Want to impact others? Talk about your failures.

If you want to be a sharp thinker, be around sharp people.

The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once.

If you want to achieve great things, you need to have a great dream.

If you want to lead people, you have to let them come up close.

If you want to lead you must learn. If you want to continue to lead you must continue to learn.

If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.

You can change your life if you really want to. You can improve it, make it better. And it all starts with changing the way you think.

When a leader is upbeat in the face of discouraging circumstances, others admire that quality and want to be like her.

God wants to be our partner throughout life. Too often we are tempted to either carry the entire load ourselves or give everything to God and do nothing. God doesn't like either strategy. Sometimes He moves before us and sometimes after us - but He doesn't move without us. Without God... we cannot. Without us... God will not.

What most people really want is to be listened to, respected, and understood.

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