L. E. Maxwell Quotes
You can't avoid fear. No magic potion will take it away. And you can't wait for motivation to get you going. To conquer fear, you have to feel the fear and take action anyway.
Becoming a good listener, you are able to connect with others on more levels and develop stronger, deeper relationships.
Every day I will renew my commitment and think about the benefits that come from it.
Even if you've had a negative effect on others in the past, you can turn that around and make your impact a positive one.
Want to impress others? Talk about your successes. Want to impact others? Talk about your failures.
Confidence equals contentment with self; contentment is knowing you have all you need for the present circumstances.
I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me.
Unless you want to carry the whole load yourself, you need to be developing leaders.
Leadership is seeing the possibilities in a situation while others are seeing the limitations.
A good environment certainly makes it easier to grow. But whether you’re in a good environment or not, you can learn and improve where you are.
People tend to become what the most important people in their lives think they will become.
Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them. Stop failing backward and start failing forward!
The best way to ensure success is to start growing today. No matter where you may be starting from, don't be discouraged; everyone who got where he is started where he was.
See what a person is doing every day, day after day, and you'll know who that person is and what he or she is becoming.
Don’t tell them what you’re going to do - that’s vision. Do what you are going to do – that’s culture.
Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve, you have to win the war in your thinking first. You can't let the failure outside you get inside you.
Loyalty to the leader reaches its highest peak when the follower has personally grown through the mentorship of the leader.
People don't really know whether they are committed to something until they face adversity.
Your thinking, more than anything else, shapes the way you live. It's really true that if you change your thinking, you can change your life.
If people around you don't believe in you, if they don't encourage you, then you need to find some people who do.
How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.
Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.
If you are a leader, the true measure of your success is not getting people to work. It's not getting people to work hard. It is getting people to work hard together. That takes commitment.
When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.
Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.
People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.
People are funny. When they are young, they will spend their health to get wealth. Later, they will gladly pay all they have trying to get their health back.
In my experience, followers always ask leaders 3 questions: 1) Do you care 4 me? 2) Can you help me? 3) Can I trust you?
It takes a lot of people to create a success. That's why I say that few leaders are successful unless a lot of people want them to be.