Today Matters Quotes

“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success

“You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training,” says (Seth) Godin. “There’s no such thing as an overnight opera sensation. Great law firms or design companies don’t spring up overnight…every great company, every great brand, and every great career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.” There is no magic solution to success.”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success

“Today Matters People create success in their lives by focusing on today. It may sound trite, but today is the only time you have. It’s too late for yesterday. And you can’t depend on tomorrow. That’s why today matters.”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success

“Priorities shift every day; values once defined, stay same.”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success

“Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is often painful. But we need to recognize that there are really two kinds of pain when it comes to our daily conduct. There’s the pain of self-discipline and the pain of regret. Most people avoid the pain of self-discipline because it’s the easy thing to do. What they may not realize is that the pain of self-discipline is momentary but the pay-off is long lasting.”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success

“Just for Today . . . Just for today . . . I will choose and display the right attitudes. Just for today . . . I will determine and act on important priorities. Just for today . . . I will know and follow healthy guidelines. Just for today . . . I will communicate with and care for my family. Just for today . . . I will practice and develop good thinking. Just for today . . . I will make and keep proper commitments. Just for today . . . I will earn and properly manage finances. Just for today . . . I will deepen and live out my faith. Just for today . . . I will initiate and invest in solid relationships. Just for today . . . I will plan for and model generosity. Just for today . . . I will embrace and practice good values. Just for today . . . I will seek and experience improvements.     Just for today . . . I will act on these decisions and practice these disciplines, and Then one day . . . I will see the compounding results of a day lived well.”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrows Success

“The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

"The only adequate preparation for tomorrow is the right use of today.”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success

“You may have a million reasons not to get started now. In a month or a year or five years from now, you may have only one regret - that you didn't start now.”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success

“Decisions help us start. Discipline helps us finish.”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success

“The greatest handicap a person has is not realizing his potential.”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success

“In order to *do* more, I've got to *be* more.”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success

“Hell begins on that day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts we wasted, of all that we might have done that we did not do.”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success

“You have not lived a perfect day, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success

“The best way to help people is to see the best in them.

The 101% principle: Look for the 1 thing I admire in them and give them 100% encouragement for it.”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success

“Only by practicing and developing your thinking daily will your ideas get better. Your thinking ability is determined not by your desire to think, but by your past thinking.”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success

“A strong positive self image is the best possible preparation for success in life.”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success

“YOUR ATTITUDE TOWARD OTHERS OFTEN DETERMINES THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARD YOU”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success

“On the card is this statement: “Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrows Success

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrows Success

“Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them, day after day. What you promise today must be renewed and redecided tomorrow and each day that stretches out before you.”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success

“improve my Today. Today. This moment. NOW. It is God’s gift to me and it is all that I have. Tomorrow with all its joys and sorrows, triumphs and troubles isn’t here yet. Indeed, tomorrow may never come. Therefore, I will not worry about tomorrow. Today is what God has entrusted to me. It is all that I have. I will do my best in it. I will demonstrate the best of me in it— my character, giftedness, and abilities— to my family and friends, clients and associates. I will identify those things that are most important to do Today, and those things I will do until they are done. And when this day is done I will look back with satisfaction at that which I have accomplished. Then, and only then, will I plan my tomorrow, Looking to improve upon Today, with God’s help. Then I shall go to sleep in peace . . . content.6”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success

“You can't make the other fellow feel important in your presence if you secretly feel that he is a nobody.”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success

“Money is like manure. If you let it pile up, it just smells. But if you spread it around, you can encourage things to grow.”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success

“Anything worth having is going to be a struggle. Commitment doesn't come easy, but when you're fighting for something you believe in the struggle is worth it.

1. Count the price of the prize.
2. Decide if you're willing to pay.
3. Commit.”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success

“Motion causes friction. Make the commitment early!”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success

“Any time you make a commitment to something, it will be tested. If something is worth doing, I will commit myself to carrying it through.”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success

“That no matter how often someone says you can't do something, by simply working harder and trying, you can prove them wrong and actually change your circumstance.

Change your thinking and it will change your life.”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success

“Ideas have a short half-life: if you don't put them to action, they die off.”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success

“It takes quantity as well as quality to develop warm and caring relationships.”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success

“Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture is arranged. It's how I arrange my mind."

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
― John C. Maxwell, Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow's Success