John C. Maxwell Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Effort, Boring

• Teams make you better than you are, multiply your value, enable you to do what you do best, allow you to help others do their best, give you more time, provide you with companionship, help you fulfill the desires of your heart and compound your vision and effort.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Teamwork, Heart

• The highest reward for our toil is not what we get for it but what we become by it. ... Mistakes are not failures. They are proof that we are making an effort. When we understand that, we can more easily move out of our comfort zone, try something new, and improve. ... Improvement demands a commitment to grow long after the mood in which it was made has passed.

  John C. Maxwell

  Mistake, Moving, Commitment

• Practice the 101 Percent Principle. Whenever possible, find the 1 percent you do agree on in a difficult situation, and give it 100 percent of your effort.

  John C. Maxwell

  Team, Difficult Situations, Practice

• Nothing of significance was ever achieved by an individual acting alone. Look below the surface and you will find that all seemingly solo acts are really team efforts.

  John C. Maxwell

  Team, Effort, Acting

  John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Complete 101 Collection”, p.384, Harper Collins

• While everyone exercises influence, the size and strength of our influence depends upon our effort. No one leads well without paying the price of discipline. As we push ourselves to grow and to learn, we enlarge our sphere of influence.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Exercise, Discipline

• Most people would rather change their circumstances to improve their lives when instead they need to change themselves to improve their circumstances. They put in just enough effort to distance themselves from their problems without ever trying to go after the root, which can often be found in themselves. Because they don't try to change the source of their problems, their problems keep coming back at them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Distance, Often Is, Roots

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