L. E. Maxwell Quotes

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.

The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

Success is... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.

When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.

A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large extent, by your habits.

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

It is our job to lift others up, not to size them up.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible.

The first step to leadership is servanthood.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success.

You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.

Faraday is, and must always remain, the father of that enlarged science of electromagnetism.

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.

Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.

To change your LIFE you need to change your PRIORITIES.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!

A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. By John Maxwell

Make personal growth a daily priority.

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.

You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

The highway of life is filled with flat squirrels that couldn't make a decision.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.

Every worthwhile accomplishment has a price tag attached to it. The question is always whether you are willing to pay the price to attain it - in hard work, sacrifice, patience, faith, and endurance.

We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something.

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers.

If you don’t try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get.

You will become on the outside, what you believe on the inside.

A society which permits anything will eventually lose everything.

You don't overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.

Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you've been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.

All leaders make mistakes. They are a part of life. Successful leaders recognize their errors, learn from them, and work to correct their faults.

For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.

Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list.

Often people fail to start or complete a task because they don't see any connection between what they're doing and what they really want to accomplish in life.

Never give up what you want most for what you want today.

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

Not realizing what you want is a problem of knowledge. Not pursuing what you want is a problem of motivation. Not achieving what you want is a problem of persistence.

Discipline - Success doesn't just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline.

It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state.