Intentional Living Quotes

“Nobody finishes well by accident.”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“An unintentional life accepts everything and does nothing. An intentional life embraces only the things that will add to the mission of significance.”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“A dream requires a partner: commitment.”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“Dreams often come one size too big so that we can grow into them.”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“John Wesley: “Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“If I wanted to make a difference… Wishing for things to change wouldn’t make them change. Hoping for improvements wouldn’t bring them. Dreaming wouldn’t provide all the answers I needed. Vision wouldn’t be enough to bring transformation to me or others. Only by managing my thinking and shifting my thoughts from desire to deeds would I be able to bring about positive change. I needed to go from wanting to doing.”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“Action is what converts human dreams into significance.”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“There isn’t anyone you couldn’t learn to love once you’ve heard their story.” —Fred Rogers”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“When you live each day with intentionality, there’s almost no limit to what you can do. You can transform yourself, your family, your community, and your nation. When enough people do that, they can change the world. When you intentionally use your everyday life to bring about positive change in the lives of others, you begin to live a life that matters.”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“intentional living is about living your best story.”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“When you get right down to it, intentional living is about living your best story.”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“Most people want to hear or tell a good story. But they don’t realize they can and should be the good story. That requires intentional living.”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“Why do so many people do nothing? I think it’s because most of us look at the evils and injustice around us, and we become overwhelmed. The problems look too big for us to tackle. We say to ourselves, “What can I do? I’m just one person.” One person is a start. One person can act and make a change by helping another. One person can inspire a second person to be intentional, and another. Those people can work together. They can become a movement. They can make an impact. We should never let what we cannot do keep us from doing what we can do. A passive life does not become a meaningful life.”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“One of the great ironies of life is that if you give up your life, you gain it. If you help others, you benefit. If you lose yourself, you find yourself.”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“Every time we choose action over ease we develop an increasing level of self-worth, self-respect, and self-confidence.”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“Henry David Thoreau wrote, “One is not born into the world to do everything, but to do something.”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“If you’re going to grow, you have to be intentional.” —Curt Kampmeier”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“Successful people are good in four areas: relationships, equipping, attitude, and leadership. Those”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“To be significant, all you have to do is make a difference with others wherever you are, with whatever you have, day by day.”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“When you intentionally use your everyday life to bring about positive change in the lives of others, you begin to live a life that matters.”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“I feel like one little fellow who knelt at the side of his bed, closed his eyes, and prayed, “God bless Mom. God bless Dad. God bless Grandma.” He said it the same way every time. But one night he added, “And please take care of yourself, God. ’Cause if anything happens to you, we’re all sunk!”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“I believed that if you have the heart to make a difference, there is always an answer, but if you have a heart of indifference, there is never an answer.”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“Don’t settle for being merely a teller of stories about significance. Decide to be the story of significance. Become the central character in your story of making a difference!”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“I observed that the greatest speakers didn’t just tell better stories. They actually made the stories better by living them first.”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“Most people don’t know this, but it’s easier to go from failure to success than from excuses to success.”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.” —SØREN KIERKEGAARD”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“Be the change you want to see in the world.” —MAHATMA GANDHI”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“know this: though not everything that we face can be changed, nothing can be changed until we face it.”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters