John C. Maxwell Quotes

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

John C. Maxwell

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• I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Want

• I don't commit to things unless I have my A-team to do it. And I'm not trying to be cocky, but that shows in my productions. They are top notch!

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Trying
  • Team
  • Shows

• In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Society
  • Celebrity
  • Everyone

• 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Movie
  • Amazing
  • Brilliant

• Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Good
  • Tennis
  • Dangerous

• The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Service

• The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Most

• We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Great
  • Like
  • Romantic

• I'll try anything once.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Try
  • Anything
  • Once

• In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • Past
  • Words

• If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Down
  • Slave
  • Doors

• And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Why
  • Remember

• It's not actually OK to just be apathetic about anything.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Just
  • OK
  • Just Be

• I just want to make sure that I'm taking roles that are positive, real, honest reflections of African-Americans because I do think the media can put African-American women in the background. Then, unfortunately, what happens is, subconsciously, our culture begins to assess that as reality.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Women
  • Real
  • American

• I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

  

  Babette March
  • Up
  • Live
  • Taken

• Example is always more efficacious than precept.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• The more defensive a society, the more conformist.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Society

• No education is ever wasted and everything you learn is helpful in acting.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Education

• I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you're a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • Up
  • God
  • Believe

• I lost my dad. He lost his tomorrows and I lost all the tomorrows with him. You could say that now, I appreciate them when they come. Now, I want to make them the best they can possibly be.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Dad
  • Tomorrow
  • Appreciate

• The Italy of my children will be at head of Europe, economically. Because Italy has all the conditions to be the country of the startups, the country of artisans and quality, and the country of the big companies.

  

  Matteo Renzi
  • Country
  • Children
  • Quality

• Death likes it when you play hard to get.

  

  R. K. Milholland
  • Death

• A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I look scary, but I think that's a fear of my confidence. Most women in contemporary culture pare down their femininity, so there's a slight androgyny about them, and I think men have got used to seeing that.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

  

  John C. Maxwell