L. E. Maxwell Quotes

Credibility is a leader's currency. With it, he or she is solvent; without it, he or she is bankrupt.

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

The first person you lead is you.

It's true that charisma can make a person stand out for a moment, but character sets a person apart for a lifetime.

The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he is a child of God and therefore a thing of value.

The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.

It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.

It's good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don't step out of your gift zone.

Your talk talks and your walk talks, but your walk talks louder than your talk talks.

Gin a body meet a body Flyin' through the air, Gin a body hit a body, Will it fly? and where?

The chief philosophical value of physics is that it gives the mind something distinct to lay hold of, which, if you don't, Nature at once tells you you are wrong.

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

Successful people don't have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.

How could there be refining fires without our enduring some heat?

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

Don't hide bad news. With multiple information channels available, bad news always becomes known. Be candid right from the start.

When great individuals move so marvelously along the straight and narrow path, it is unseemly of us to call attention to the fact that one of their shoelaces is untied as they make the journey.

Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been because of Prayer

You add value to people when you value them.

Let us have integrity and not write checks with our tongues which our conduct cannot cash.

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

Be intentional to add value to every person you meet everyday.

Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. How do you gain influence from people? You invest in them. How do you invest in them? It starts with giving them time.

I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me.

It's better to prepare than to repair.

Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!

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

To measure a leader, put a tape around his heart, not his head.

If we spent as much time lifting our children as we do criticizing them, how effectively we could help them to see themselves in a more positive light!

True success is obeying God.

If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever.

Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world.

The better you are at surrounding yourself with people of high potential, the greater your chance for success.

His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.

We are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don't say, But by our own attitude and our own response.

I believe that everyone chooses how to approach life. If you're proactive, you focus on preparing. If you're reactive, you end up focusing on repairing.

This is where you will win the battle - in the playhouse of your mind.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them.

You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.

Joshua didn't say choose you next year whom you will serve; he spoke of "this day," while there is still daylight and before the darkness becomes more and more normal.

Many of those engaged in a lemming-like march to the sea are proud of their individualism.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous - is changed by it.

Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.

If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.