L. E. Maxwell Quotes

Yesterday ended last night.

How to prepare someone for leadership:I do it.I do it and you watch.You do it and I watch.You do it.You do it and someone else watches.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger-prints on the road to achievement. .

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, 'It's a Wonderful Life' tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.

It is impossible to say why people put so little value on complete happiness.

You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you

I believe that life is full of tragedy. Some lives more than others. But I also believe that comfort can be found with the people that love you . . . if you're willing to let them give it.

Living together/ is one move closer/ to living apart

Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own.I am the force.

The Stone Age didn’t end because people ran out of stones. It ended because people kept learning and improving

It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state...

But then, people usually do miss what's right in front of them.

There exists a line within every man, a line that frightens even us. When an enemy comes to our very doorstep to endanger wife and child, our Beast is unleashed. The Lionmage had gone feral.

Lucas took a tentative sip of his coffee. It tasted like an otter had pissed in a tea urn and it had been left to go stale over a prolonged period.

Leadership is influence

A great life starts within

They had stopped shouting at each other and put their faith in legal counsel. With the result that how things could be made to look was what counted, not how they actually were.

The minds of small children are more interested in clockwork trains, jumping in puddles and other important childhood endeavours.

-You dressed me like a woman-I did-It was insulting-Only if you think a woman is lesser than man.-Aren't they?-A woman saved your life

you ultimately become the one/what you hate.

...[T]here are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating.

Baggage is a funny thing. The more you have of it, the heavier it becomes and the longer it takes to reach your destination in life.

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.'(from "The Front and the Back Parts of the House", 1991)

If you make friends with yourself, you'll never be alone.

Inspiration is born when our passion becomes greater than our fear.

The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognize your own worth.

My desire to see as much of the world as I could started with these stars.

Our present state of self-confidence and poise is the result of what we have "experienced" rather than what we have learned intellectually.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow in your arms.

A leader is the one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.

Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. -Oct 1986

All true leaders have learned to say no to the good in order to say yes to the best.

To be a writer - write! To be an author - publish! To be a bestselling author - never stop writing!

This is what creation is. The might and marvel of forever creating out of opposition.

It is as though God said, "You think to create order? Here is the appropriate disorder, since they are one.

If you make friends with yourself, you’ll never be alone.

Men always want what they can’t have, or what other men want. It’s a scientific fact.

I want you to channel Jessica Rabbit and give him a show.

The back is one of my favorite parts of a woman’s body. I love to trace and lick the shallow line of her spine, from the top and all the way down to the twin dimples at the base of her lower back.

You're absolutely gorgeous. But you look too empty." Holding her gaze he slid his thumbs in to circle the rim of her opening. "Want something to fill you up?

Just get it down on paper, and then we’ll see what to do with it.

A week is a long time in the life of a child.

In an age of immediacy the idea of waiting sounds hopelessly outdated. But that said, there is something to be said about anticipation...

Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the othe

From the point of view of the playwright then the essence of a tragedy or even of a serious play is the spiritual awakening or regeneration of his hero.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas on the calculated risk and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

There are trees that seem to die at the end of autumn. There are also the evergreens.

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