The Self-Aware Leader Quotes

“Judith Tobin suggests the value of five qualities that can assist you to connect with others: Appreciation allows for differences in people and considers them interesting. Sensitivity understands personal feelings and quickly takes into account the moods of others. Consistency has the quality of being “real,” not phony, and gives only sincere compliments. Security doesn’t try to be “top dog”; it knows that helping others win isn’t a loss for you. Humor laughs at itself; it is not overly sensitive.”
― John C. Maxwell, The Self-Aware Leader: Play to Your Strengths, Unleash Your Team

“people’s purpose in life is always connected to their giftedness. It always works that way. You will not be called to do something that you have no talent for. You will discover your purpose by finding and remaining in your strengths.”
― John C. Maxwell, The Self-Aware Leader: Play to Your Strengths, Unleash Your Team

“Thomas J. Watson, the former chairman of IBM, said, “Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.”
― John C. Maxwell, The Self-Aware Leader: Play to Your Strengths, Unleash Your Team

“Because I lacked the ability to prioritize correctly and bring focus to my leadership.”
― John C. Maxwell, The Self-Aware Leader: Play to Your Strengths, Unleash Your Team

“Leaders need to remember that the point of leading is not to cross the finish line first. It’s to take people across the finish line with you. For that reason, leaders must deliberately slow their pace, stay connected to their people, enlist others to help fulfill the vision, and keep people going.”
― John C. Maxwell, The Self-Aware Leader: Play to Your Strengths, Unleash Your Team

“Self-aware leaders are focused more on the success of their team members and organization than on their personal achievements or advancement. If their individual team members are growing and improving and their team is winning, they judge themselves successful.”
― John C. Maxwell, The Self-Aware Leader: Play to Your Strengths, Unleash Your Team

“The road to success is uphill all the way, and most people are not willing to pay the price. Many people would rather deal with old problems than find new solutions. And people who are satisfied with being average will try to pull down anyone around them who is working to rise above that standard. To be a lifelong learner, I had to get out of a stagnant environment and distance myself from people who had no desire to grow. I sought out places where growth was valued and people were growing. This helped me to change and grow—especially in the beginning of my journey.”
― John C. Maxwell, The Self-Aware Leader: Play to Your Strengths, Unleash Your Team

“To be a lifelong learner, I had to get out of a stagnant environment and distance myself from people who had no desire to grow.”
― John C. Maxwell, The Self-Aware Leader: Play to Your Strengths, Unleash Your Team

“The moment you stop learning is the moment you stop leading.”
― John C. Maxwell, The Self-Aware Leader: Play to Your Strengths, Unleash Your Team

“You cannot lead others until you first lead yourself.” You can lead yourself at your best only if you invest in yourself first.”
― John C. Maxwell, The Self-Aware Leader: Play to Your Strengths, Unleash Your Team

“I had learned that people don’t reach their potential by accident. The secret to success can be found in our daily agenda. If we do something intentional to grow every day, we move closer to reaching our potential. If we don’t, our potential slowly slips away over the course of our lifetime.”
― John C. Maxwell, The Self-Aware Leader: Play to Your Strengths, Unleash Your Team

“The secret to success can be found in our daily agenda.”
― John C. Maxwell, The Self-Aware Leader: Play to Your Strengths, Unleash Your Team

“Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.” —C. W. CERAN”
― John C. Maxwell, The Self-Aware Leader: Play to Your Strengths, Unleash Your Team

“The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.” —JOYCE BROTHERS”
― John C. Maxwell, The Self-Aware Leader: Play to Your Strengths, Unleash Your Team

“All of us like to hear good things said about us and to us. We all want to be appreciated. However, many people don’t receive positive feedback or appreciation from their leaders at work.”
― John C. Maxwell, The Self-Aware Leader: Play to Your Strengths, Unleash Your Team

“It’s obvious that you can’t have a winning team without teamwork. However, not every leader actively works to help team members work together. Don’t fall into that trap. Take responsibility for communicating to all the players how all the people fit together and what strengths they bring for their role. The more you do this, the more people will value and respect one another.”
― John C. Maxwell, The Self-Aware Leader: Play to Your Strengths, Unleash Your Team

“Good leaders who are self-aware don’t just help themselves. They help the people on their team to find their strengths, and they empower them to work in those strengths.”
― John C. Maxwell, The Self-Aware Leader: Play to Your Strengths, Unleash Your Team

“Organizations exist to make people’s strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.”
― John C. Maxwell, The Self-Aware Leader: Play to Your Strengths, Unleash Your Team

“What skills and abilities do you have that are way beyond average? These strengths should be what you develop.”
― John C. Maxwell, The Self-Aware Leader: Play to Your Strengths, Unleash Your Team

“The smallest group you will ever lead is you, a group of one. That is the most important one you will ever lead. If you do that well, then you will earn the right to lead even bigger and stronger groups.”
― John C. Maxwell, The Self-Aware Leader: Play to Your Strengths, Unleash Your Team

“Knowing your purpose in life, Growing to your maximum potential, and Sowing seeds that benefit others.”
― John C. Maxwell, The Self-Aware Leader: Play to Your Strengths, Unleash Your Team

“People’s purpose in life is always connected to their giftedness.”
― John C. Maxwell, The Self-Aware Leader: Play to Your Strengths, Unleash Your Team