John C. Maxwell Choices Quotations

Commitment comes as a result of choice, not conditions.

If you don’t change the direction you are going, then you’re likely to end up where you’re heading…

Everyone gets discourages...The question is: Are you going to give up or get up? It's a choice.

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.

You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

People of poor character tend to blame their choices on circumstances. Ethical people make good choices regardless of circumstances. If they make enough good choices, they begin to create better conditions for themselves.

Your attitude is a choice.

Talent allows people to stand out, but their wrong choices make them sit down.

Talk to people, not above them.

The key choices you make-apart from the natural talent you already have-will set you apart from others who have talent alone.

Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized that they couldn't determine every circumstance in life but they could determine their choice of attitude towards every circumstance.

The ability to understand people is a choice.

Perhaps our greatest power in life is the power to choose. Without question, choices are the most determining factor in how our lives turn out.

Talent is a gift, but our character is a choice. Talent is natural ability, our gift from God, but we have the power to determine our character. That power rests on a foundation consisting of the choices we make in life. And those choices almost always dictate the amount of trust others have in us, and to what level of leadership we rise.

It's one thing to make a choice. It's another to put that choice into practice.