L. E. Maxwell Quotes

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.

I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.

Passion gives you an advantage over others, because one person with passion is greater than ninety-nine who have only an interest!

If you desire to become a more generous person, don't wait for your income to change. Change your heart.

I'm not where I'm supposed to be, I'm not what I want to be, But I'm not what I used to be. I haven't learned how to arrive; I've just learned how to keep going

Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness.

What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population that knows values, or can learn them, and let them decide.

Without a vision people and the church become self-centered. People start finding fault with one another and the church self-destructs.

Never allow others to put obstacles in the pathway of your dreams

The person who does only what he must when he is in the mood or when it's convenient isn't going to be successful.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possilble. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs.

You cannot enjoy others until you enjoy yourself because you cannot give to others what you do not have.

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.

Working together precedes winning together...collaboration is multiplication.

Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.

The bookends of success are starting and finishing. Decisions help us start; discipline helps us finish.

The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.

Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.

The book belongs to the author.

You are all right on time, except for the fact that time is the enemy of us all, and especially of the writer.

A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.

Colour as perceived by us is a function of three independent variables at least three are I think sufficient, but time will show if I thrive.

Consecration thus constitutes the only unconditional surrender which is also a total victory!

If you aren't making any mistakes, it's a sure sign you're playing it too safe.

Good homes are still the best source of good humans.

To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward.

In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma.

While personal maturity may mean being able to see beyond yourself, leadership maturity means considering others before yourself.

We are often not only to slow to get on our knees, but to quick to rise from them.

All crosses are easier to carry when we keep moving.

When you go home, tell them of us and say, for their tomorrow we gave our today.

The Lord doesn't ask about your ability, only your availability; and, if you prove your dependability, the Lord will increase your capability.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

Your life begins to change when you change something you do every day.

No one stands taller in the climb to success than when he bends over to help up someone else.

At the beginning, all we have is the vision. At that point God expects us to begin walking in obedience according to the dream He has given us.

Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.

I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times.

On the straight and narrow path, there are simply no corners to be cut.

The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.

Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.

Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

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

He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

You have to throw yourself away when you write.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.

An idea is worthless unless you use it.