L. E. Maxwell Quotes

Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved.

To lead yourself, use your head; to lead others, use your heart. Always touch a person's heart before you ask him for a hand.

Commitment comes as a result of choice, not conditions.

Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.

What you are going to be tomorrow, you are becoming today.

People knowledge is much more important than mere product knowledge.

You can't move people to action unless you first move them with emotion. The heart comes before the head.

To go nowhere, follow the crowd.

Our attitudes cannot stop our feelings, but they can keep our feelings from stopping us.

When we are foolish, we want to conquer the world. When we are wise, we want to conquer ourselves. That begins when we do what we should no matter how we feel about it.

A sense of responsibility is the clearest indication of mature leadership.

Practice the 101 Percent Principle. Whenever possible, find the 1 percent you do agree on in a difficult situation, and give it 100 percent of your effort.

Insecure leaders think everything is about them, and as a result, every action, every piece of information, every decision is put through their filter of self-centeredness.

A person of responsibility can trust himself to choose the right thing over the easy thing.

Nothing is as hard as it looks; everything is more rewarding than you expect; and if anything can go right it will and at the best possible moment.

As you interact with others, remember this: anytime a person's response is larger than the issue at hand, the response is almost always about something else.

Thank God for the tough times. They are the reason you are there - to be the leader. If everything was going well, the people wouldn't need you!

Hope is not strategy. Hope fits with vision, but we must have a strategy and a process to make our vision become a reality.

But the law of magnetism really is true: who you are is who you attract.

I've never known a person focused on yesterday to have a better tomorrow.

It is truly one day at a time.

If you live life with the intention of making a difference in others' lives, your life will be full not empty.

Everyone who got where he is started where he was.

No matter if you're just starting out or if you are at the peak of your career, the more you work in your strength zone, the more successful you will be.

Talent allows people to stand out, but their wrong choices make them sit down.

If you want to help others and become a person of influence, keep smiling, sharing, giving, and turning the other cheek.

All things being equal, attitude wins. All things not being equal, attitude sometimes still wins.

Be generous, be humble, and be grateful when achieving your dreams.

Without a vision people in leadership positions perish. You not only lose your people, you lose the person who is in a leadership position - you lose it all.

The primary limitation in life is our low expectations for ourselves and others. When we expect minimum results, that's usually what we get.

Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess.

Holding a grudge is never positive or appropriate.

You can't grow and learn if your focus is on finding someone else to blame instead of looking at your own shortcomings.

..Give them your faith, and they become confident, energized, and self-reliant.

Are you a thinker, a doer, or a clutch player? The better you are, the greater potential for influence you will have with your people.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

Passion creates energy and magnetically pulls co-workers and customers into a shared vision, and it is exceptionally strong when linked with a leader's values.

To be a leader you must be able to create positive change.

The dream is free...but the journey will cost you something.

Dependable teams members possess the desire to do the things they are capable of doing.

When the dream is right for the person and the person is right for the dream, the two cannot be separated from each other.

If your vision doesn't cost you something, it's a daydream.

If you are in a leadership position, do not rely on your title to convince people to follow you. Build relationships. Win people over. Do that and you will never be a lonely leader.

For leaders to be effective, they need to connect with people.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

Nurturing has the ability to transform people's lives.

When you nurture people and add value to them without expecting anything in return, they feel significant.

Leaders provide for their people what the people cannot provide for themselves.

The real test of leadership isn't where you start out. It's where you end up.

When a leader reaches out in passion, he is usually met with an answering passion.