L. E. Maxwell Quotes

The last decision I made was my health when I had a heart attack when I was 51.

A leader is a reader.

If you want to improve your world, then focus your attention on helping others.

Let God talk to you and minister to you, where you get honest with Him - here's what I do well and don't do well; here are my shortcomings, my strengths, and my gifts.

Values hold the team together, provide stability for the team to grow upon, measure the team's performance, give direction and guidance and attract like-minded people.

Our attitude can turn our problems into blessings.

Many people help construct our attitudes at a certain time and place.

The only thing a title can buy is a little time-either to increase your level of influence with others or to undermine it.

Our challenge is to think right in a wrong world. Our challenge is to think positive in a negative world.

Successful people do what is right no matter how they feel, and by doing right, they feel good.

Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.

If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.

Leaders have two characteristics: first they are going somewhere, and second they are able to persuade other people to go with them.

Doing the right thing daily, compounds over time.

Everyone has the power to impact the outcome of his life. The way to do it is to focus on today. . . It is too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow.

Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.

Your life expands in proportion to your courage. Fear limits a leader.

You have to know who you are to grow to your potential. But you have to grow in order to know who you are.

Those closest to me will determine the level of my success.

We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to the process.

Inexperienced leaders are quick to lead before knowing anything about the people they intend to lead. But mature leaders listen, learn and then lead.

Nobody can motivate himself in a positive direction by continually using negative words.

A leader who develops people adds; a leader who develops leaders multiplies.

Difficulties seldom defeat people; lack of faith in themselves usually does it.

The Visalus Founders are the finest and sharpest young leaders that I have ever met.

Coming together is a beginning, and staying together is progress, but only when teams sweat together do they find success.

Deciding what to be is more important than deciding what to do.

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.

Only those who see their dream are able to seize their dream.

Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'.

Thus number may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.

Acquiring and keeping good people is a leader's most important task.

When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.

Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.

The true test of relationships is not only how loyal someone is when we fail, but how thrilled they are when we succeed.

Progress does not occur without change.

Anyone who loves his opinions more than his teammates will advance his opinions but set back his team.

Never allow others to think you always have the best answers. This will only make them dependent on you.

The smartest person in the room is never as smart as all the people in the room.

Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team.

Courage and initiative come when you understand your purpose in life.

Be the most enthusiastic person you know.

What I did in the book [Today Matters] is I tried to help a person make their day - every day - their masterpiece.

Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all.

To help people believe they can achieve victory, put them in a position to experience small successes.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

Seek advice, but make sure it's from someone who has successfully handled mistakes or adversities.

Effective leaders don't gather things just for themselves; they do it in order to give to others.

Be willing to absorb some risk and failures to allow people freedom to express themselves.

Successful people make right decisions early and manage those decisions daily.