L. E. Maxwell Quotes

The leader is there for the people, not the people for the leader

The best leaders are humble enough to realize their victories depend upon their people.

The only adequate preparation for tomorrow is the right use of today.

Every relationship in your organization will affect you one way or another. Those who do not increase you will inevitably decrease you.

Knowing the future is difficult, controlling the future is impossible. Knowing today is essential; controlling today is possible.

Most accomplishments in life come more easily if you approach them strategically

Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated experience teaches everything.

Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership.

God gives us resources according to our dreams and according to our obedience. And God doesn't give those resources until we've started walking in obedience.

If you want to do something really big, do it as part of a team.

Smart leaders believe only half of what they hear. Discerning leaders know which have to believe.

Personnel determines the potential of the team. Vision determines the direction of the team. Work ethic determines the preparation of the team. Leadership determines the success of the team.

Your teammates will stretch your vision or choke your dream.

Every journey toward a dream is personal, and as a result, so is the price that must be paid for it.

If you wouldn't follow yourself, why should anyone else?

Grow a leader-grow the organization. A company cannot grow without until its leaders grow within.

Not everybody who has a vision is a leader, but every leader has a vision.

When the pastor and his or her church have a vision, they will put their energy, time, money, and personnel into achieving it.

Progress is often just a good idea away.

People who love life have charisma because they fill the room with positive energy.

One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail.

One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish much. Success is the result of people pulling together to meet common goals.

Birds of a feather really do flock together.

God gives us the vision, then He expects us to walk in obedience. As we do, the resources we need come to us.

Every strong conviction ends by taking possession of us; it overcomes and absorbs us, and tears us ruthlessly from everything else. Has the Cross so seized upon your life?

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. (Terullian) When she ceases to bleed, she ceases to bless. She can thrive through persecution, but never through peace and plenty.

H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken - there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.

Like a crowd in my head, so loud. I wonder what it's like to be dead, I hope it's quiet. Noise in my head like a riot. Any remedy you have for me, I'll try it.

The minute that we change our minds, and stop giving power to the past, the past with its mistakes loses power over us.

Happiness is the art of relaxation.

When you're not goal-striving, not looking forward, you're not really living.

The Savior knows what it's like to die of cancer.

Those who do too much for their children will soon find they can do nothing with their children. So many children have been so much done for they are almost done in.

We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.

Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.

Personal, spiritual symmetry emerges only from the shaping of prolonged obedience. Twigs are bent, not snapped into shape.

The "new" in us is bound to notice the "old" that remains.

Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant.

One day the faithful will have it all!

Brigham Young observed, "Man's machinery makes things alike" (JD 9:370), while God gives to seemingly like individuals pleasing differences. Secularism is no friend of righteous individuality.

Celestial criteria measures service, not status.

Pray for me to learn quickly what I need to learn.

You are as safe with me as you would be in the Bank of England.

The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.

You see, when our attitudes outdistance our abilities, even the impossible becomes possible.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

don't try for wit. Settle for humor. You'll last longer.

Claim the events of your life! When you posses all you have been and done, you are fierce with reality.