John C. Maxwell Today Quotations

What I did in the book, Today Matters is I tried to help a person make their day - every day - their masterpiece.

The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.

The only adequate preparation for tomorrow is the right use of today.

The greatest of all insights is that we cannot be tomorrow what we do not do today.

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. Success doesn't just suddenly occur one day in someone's life. Neither does failure. Each is a process. Every day of your life is merely preparation for the next. What you become is the result of what you do today.

Tomorrow really will take care of itself if I do the right thing today.

Be better tomorrow than you are today.

I talk about my daily dozen in the book [ Today Matters]. Twelve things that are certainly attainable by any of us that we need to manage every day.

The person who insists on using yesterday's methods in today's world won't be in business tomorrow

To help [people] understand that what you shortcut today, cannot be made up tomorrow. So it's like, I'm not going to do anything today, and I'm going to do the wrong thing today and somehow tomorrow it will get a lot better."

You realize that we over-exaggerate yesterday, we over-estimate tomorrow and we underestimate today. We think, "Well, I'm going to kill time," "I'll get back to this tomorrow."

Knowing the future is difficult, controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.

Growth today is an investment for tomorrow.

Point out a great strength of someone in your life today!

What you are going to be tomorrow, you are becoming today.

Tomorrow's destiny becomes today's direction.

The greatest of all miracles is that we need not be tomorrow what we are today. The greatest of all insights is that we cannot be tomorrow what we do not do today. That is why today matters.

The greatest detriment to many people's success tomorrow is their thinking today.