L. E. Maxwell Quotes

Adversity is an opportunity for self-discovery.

The more intentional you are about your leadership growth, the greater your potential for becoming the leader you're capable of being. Never stop learning.

Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking.

The unexamined leader is not worth following.

If I expect great things from my people, they'll go to great lengths to keep from disappointing me.

Positivity is an inside job that makes the outside look a lot better.

There is a world of difference between a person who has a big problem and a person who makes a problem big.

The only way a church is going to be relevant is to get out of its comfort zone and connect with unchurched people.

The key word in the church community is relationships, you know brother and sister in Christ.

People do not give from the top of their purses but from the bottom of their hearts. If you desire to become a more generous person do not change your income. Change your heart.

Hope sings when all melodies are gone.

Integrity is the human quality most necessary to business success.

Manipulation is moving together for my advantage. Motivation is moving together for mutual advantage.

The success of a vision is determined by its ownership by both the leader and the people.

If you want to become a better listener, however you need to learn to direct that energy and attention positively by concentrating on the person you're with.

Changing your attitude from self-centerdness to understanding requires desire and commitment to always try to see things from the other persons point of view.

While a good leader sustains momentum, a great leader increases it.

To be successful, you can't just run on the fast track; run on your track.

If you take control of your behavior, your emotions will fall into place.

We tend to think of great thinkers and innovators as soloists, but the truth is that the greatest innovative thinking doesn't occur in a vacuum.

We don't mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

Leadership is the power of one harnessing the power of many.

Every major difficulty you face in life is a fork in the road. You choose which track you will head down, toward breakdown or breakthrough.

It was in the mid-70's, '74 or '75 I started doing leadership conferences for pastors and in '79 I wrote my first book "Think On These Things".

I remember as a seventeen-year-old kid saying, "If attitude made me captain of this team, I'm going to have a good attitude all my life."

Not disown my past or upbringing, but I'd admired American actors, really American movie star - particularly the rebel heroes of the '50s.

You don't need eyes to see, you need vision.

Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.

Unthaw and become more natural.

Ignore past failures and forge ahead.

You are not your mistakes. Just because you have done something stupid does not make you stupid.

Why not imagine yourself successful?

If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!

Of all the errors one could make, God's gospel plan is the wrong thing to be wrong about.

If the Church were not true, our enemies would be bored rather than threatened, and acquiescent rather than anxious. Hell is moved only when things move heavenward.

God’s grace will cover us like a cloak-enough to provide for survival but too thin to keep out all the cold.

The harrowing of the soul can be like the harrowing of the soil; to increase the yield, things are turned upside down.

It is not the years but the changes that make us grow.

The true Christian is a communicator.

Our little pebble of poor performance helps to start, or to sustain, an avalanche.

As we come closer to Him, we not only "stand all amazed"-we even kneel all amazed!

The enlarging of the soul requires not only some remodeling, but some excavating.

Why is it that for many persons changing others is so exciting and so relevant, while changing oneself is so boring and irrelevant?

I try to think professionally that my body is my job and just get up and do my modeling work, you always feel better after it.

A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.

The reason life is so strange is that so often people have no choice.

The company owner doesn't need to win. The best idea does.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it's as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

Without failure there is no achievement.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.