L. E. Maxwell Quotes

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.

Ampere was the Newton of Electricity.

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.

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

Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important.

Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.

Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!

Opportunity is a bird that never perches.

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

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.

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

Anger should never be an overnight guest.

It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it's almost always due to personal growth.

I testify that He is utterly incomparable in what He is, what He knows, what He has accomplished and what He has experienced. Yet, movingly, He calls us His Friends

Our destiny is determined, not by what we possess, but by what possess us.

Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership.

A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.

In talking about the past, we lie with every breath we draw.

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.

Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.

Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership.

Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.

Two people could build an outhouse in four hours. They're not complicated.

At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.

If you aim at anything lower that is expecting your audience to be really alert and aware, then you're going to be caught out sooner or later as a composer.

The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.

Each day I see all about me the fruits of commandment-keeping.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date.

An attitude is: an inward feeling expressed by an outward action.

When a leader is upbeat in the face of discouraging circumstances, others admire that quality and want to be like her.

How good you and I get at repenting will determine how good life is.

One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination.

A leader's lasting value is measured by succession.

A person who has a dream knows what he is willing to give up in order to go up.

Our attitude determines our approach to life.

We are so busy constantly checking our own temperatures, we fail to notice the burning fevers of others.

We all stand on the shoulders of the past generation.

A good leader encourages followers to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to hear.

Mistakes are the stepping stones to success.

If another person only had in his storehouse of deserved self-esteem what you had put there, what would he have to draw upon and to sustain him?

Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.

Successful people reject rejection.

Never underestimate the power of an encouraging word.