L. E. Maxwell Quotes

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

It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the world.

If your job is not making a difference in this world, by all means, get out there and find something else ... You’ll find a sense of making a difference through your work if you simply look for it.

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.

The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

My younger daughter told me recently that when she was a child she thought the typewriter was a toy that I went into my room and closed the door and played with.

You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that.

Collaboration is multiplication.

Heat may be generated and destroyed by certain processes, and this shows that heat is not a substance.

Don't buy into the notion that mistakes can somehow be avoided. They can't be.

Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.

To succeed in life, we must stay within our strength zone but continually move outside our comfort zone.

Negative thinking limits God and our potential.

Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

People can open doors for you, but you ... must walk through.

The length and breath of our influence on others are directly related to the depth of our concern for them.

If the kingdom of God is not first, it doesn't matter what's second.

Though we live in a failing world, we have not been sent here to fail.

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

Learn about writing from reading. That is the right way to do it.

Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.

We cannot repent for someone else. But we can forgive someone else, refusing to hold hostage those whom the Lord seeks to set free!

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

Faith in God includes Faith in God's timing.

Times will change for the better when you change.

Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.

Do not say to yourself, 'I am going to act this way tomorrow.' Just say to yourself - 'I am going to imagine myself acting this way NOW - for 30 minutes - today.'

Giving is the highest level of living.

If you want to be positive, upbeat, and passionate, you need to take responsibility for being that way.

In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way.

Listening is one of the forms of love.

You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.

Your attitude is like the minds paintbrush. It can paint everything in bright, vibrant colors-creating a masterspiece.

The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk — and to act.

Always take the high road.

If you don't change the direction you are going, then you're likely to end up where you're heading.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.

To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.

The GREATEST battle you wage against FAILURE occurs on the INSIDE, not the OUTSIDE.

The greatest of all miracles is that we need not be tomorrow what we are today. The greatest of all insights is that we cannot be tomorrow what we do not do today. That is why today matters.

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

When you find your spiritual gift, God will give you an opportunity to use it.

Believing in people before they have proved themselves is the key to motivating people to reach their potential.

The J3 Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you.

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.