L. E. Maxwell Quotes

Since an attitude is often expressed by our body language and by the looks on our faces, it can be contagious.

The greatest miracle you can hope for is self-acceptance.

You must do right before you feel good.

If you think you are the entire picture, you will never see the big picture.

I may be a mistake maker, but I'm also a mistake breaker.

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.

Leadership is influence.

Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism by the use of imagination, or imaging ability.

No matter your title, people will not follow you if they don’t trust you.

Reflective thinking is like the crock pot of the mind. It encourages your thoughts to simmer until they're done.

One is too small a number to achieve greatness.

Never open a can of worms unless you plan to go fishing.

Everyone gets discourages...The question is: Are you going to give up or get up? It's a choice.

If you travel alone, you can probably go faster. But the journey will never be as rewarding, and you probably won't be able to go as far.

As soon as the Cross ceases to be to us, first of all, the place of utmost shame and contempt, we make the Cross of Christ of none effect.

If, through the years, the Cross in the life of the believer had been adhered to as strenuously as the Cross for salvation, the Church would not today be so plagued with modernistic infidelity.

We must be reduced again and again to the limit of all resolution and resources and be compelled to feel the need of Another's help and sufficiency.

Change your mental imagery, and the feelings will take care of themselves.

Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project.

Every day you must try to make your own self-image grow; this you can do.

Success each day should be judged by the seeds sown, not the harvest reaped.

True success and true happiness not only go together but each other enhances the other.

Leadership is the readiness to stand out in a crowd.

Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual.

Sometimes I hear people talk about discipline of self and I think, if you don't have passion, I might discipline myself for a week or two but only passion will hold me steady.

No matter where you are in your leadership journey, never forget that what got you to where you are won't get you to the next level.

You can't build a relationship with everybody in the room when you don't care about anybody in the room.

Ampere was the Newton of Electricity.

A manager says 'go,' but a leader says 'let's go'.

You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances.

We fail, not because of big problems, but because of small purposes.

God doesn't move until we move first.

Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude.

if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.

What you give to help others, builds them up enough that they are able to give to others. It's a cycle that can continue on long after you're dead and gone.

If your a leader, do everything you can to grow yourself and create the right environment for others to grow.

Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.

You can never be more outside of you, than what's in you

Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life.

Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!

Anger should never be an overnight guest.

Leaders will not experience long-term success unless a lot of people want them to.

A friend of mine who passed through a most severe trial, when I discussed it with him, he said simply, if it’s fair, it isn’t a trial.

It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.

Opportunity is a bird that never perches.

Only those who have earned leisure know how to use it profitably.

Daily hope is vital, since the ‘Winter Quarters’ of our lives are not immediately adjacent to our promised land either. An arduous trek still awaits, but hope spurs weary disciples on.

Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.

Don't fear, just live right.