L. E. Maxwell Quotes

It's one thing to make a choice. It's another to put that choice into practice.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

The effectiveness of your work will never rise above your ability to lead and influence others.

Realizing your potential as a leader is your responsibility.

Your leadership skills determine the level of your success, and the success of those who work around you.

The collective influence of you and the other leaders will bring the rest along. If this does not happen, divided interest and loyalty will occur within the group.

The best teacher for a leader is evaluated experience.

Being one step ahead makes you a leader Being fifty steps ahead could make you a martyr.

Leadership development is a lifetime journey, not a quick trip.

Look behind you: What have you learned? Look around you: What is happening to others? Look above you: What does God expect of you? Look besides you: What resources are available to you?

Always turn to God in the midst of your struggle and view people who offended you as an instruments of divine sovereignty.

A leader's attitude is caught by his or her followers more quickly than his or her actions.

Ordinary people with commitment can make an extraordinary impact on the their world.

The truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement.

Every change in human attitude must come through internal understanding and acceptance. Man is the only known creature who can reshape and remould himself by altering his attitude.

The size of a person is more important than the size of the problem.

When your great players are team players, everybody else follows their lead. The best team doesn't always win - it's usually the team that gets along best.

The key choices you make-apart from the natural talent you already have-will set you apart from others who have talent alone.

There are two paths people can take. They can either play now and pay later, or pay now and play later. Regardless of the choice, one thing is certain. Life will demand a payment.

My leadership began to take flight when I allowed myself to press people to change-whether they thanked me or cursed me.

Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent inside of them.

Attitude ... is the vanguard of your true self.

To add growth, lead followers - to multiply, lead leaders.

If you are training leaders, because you need them, you are too late.

The moment you place a label on someone, you begin to treat him or her accordingly.

It's more important to get along with people than to get ahead of them.

Become a coach, not a king. A coach brings out the best in others, helping them to reach deep down inside and discover their potential. A king only gives commands.

Inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of a leader.

To you to live a significant life, you have to become intentional.

Success is about us. Significance is about others.

Most people are not valued. Very few people have someone who believes in them. Very few have others love them unconditionally. Do these things intentionally every day.

One of the best ways to cultivate a possibility mind set is to prompt yourself to dream one size bigger than you normally do. Let's face it, most people dream too small, they don't think big enough.

The first important step in weathering failure is learning not to personalize it.

If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

I always find the greatest help I receive is from people who have been where I have been, but now they're no longer there.

Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation for success.

If you want to make your mother happy, talk to her. If you want to make your father happy, listen.

The younger you are, the more experimenting you should do. But once you've found what you were created to do, stick with it.

The greatest detriment to many people's success tomorrow is their thinking today.

If you're lying, you're lying.

Leadership is the dream made reality.

The leader continually passes on the vision to those who come around, knowing that dreams, if presented right, are contagious.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

No matter what our circumstances, our greatest limitation isn't the leader above us - it's the spirit within us.

The secret of a person's success is discovered in their daily agenda.

Positive thinking must be followed by positive doing.

If you want leaders, you must become a leader yourself!

Leaders are less interested in their position and more interested in their positive impact on others.