Maxwell Quotes

Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.

Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for inspiration. 4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity. 5) Dream big. 6) Plan your priorities. 7) Give up to go up.

We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.

Success is... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.

if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.

If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone.

You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

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

Question for God every morning: What is the main event today? What do you want me to focus on today?

A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. By John Maxwell

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

To Stay Focused in Life: You can't know everyone You can't do everything You can't go everywhere We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.

A leader who produces other leaders multiples their influences.

Times will change for the better when you change.

The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying

Faith in God includes Faith in God's timing.

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

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

Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.

Stay focused instead of getting offended or off track by others.

You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.

Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life.

Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.

We feel unhappy and confused with our life when we don't do the focus or calling that God has on our life.

Goats," said Maxwell Hyde, "are a special case. Mad as hatters, all of them.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you

The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it.

Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is best—better than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting that our timetable is better than His. We can grow in faith only if we are willing to wait patiently for God's purposes and patterns to unfold in our lives, on His timetable.

Poem by Howard A. Walter (Character) I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there are those who suffer; I would be brave, for there is much to dare. I would be friend of all--- the foe, the friendless; I would be giving, and forget the gift; I would be humble, for I know my weakness; I would look up, and laugh, and love, and lift.

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

If we are serious about our discipleship, Jesus will eventually request each of us to do those very things which are most difficult for us to do.

Elder Neal A. Maxwell once said, "We are here in mortality, and the only way to go is through; there isn't any around!" I would add, the only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

There was a very cautious man Who never laughed or played He never risked, he never tried, He never sang or prayed. And when he on day passed away, His insurance was denied, For since he never really lived, They claimed he never really died. (Anonymous poem)

If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one another.

Te voy a añorar cada instante, cada momento del día, porque te has convertido en el sol que ilumina mi vida

...el amor debe ser como el café. A veces fuerte, otras dulces, a veces solo, otras acompañado, pero nunca frío

Never give up what you want most for what you want today.

Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.

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

For men love what they cannot have, and hate what they cannot control.

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

Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.

True success comes only when every generation continues to develop the next generation.

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

Was it possible to physically feel the moment you lost your heart to someone? Because Lucie was fairly sure she'd just lost hers, and the spot where it should have been literally hurt.

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

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

Image is what people think we are; integrity is whar we really are.

Lucy Marie Maris...I am completely and utterly in love with you. And as god is my witness- no matter how long it takes- someday I will be worthy enough to be your husband, because I can't bear the thought of living without you.

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

We cannot improve the world if we are conformed to the world.

If Not You, Who Else?

You must do right before you feel good.

But then, liars do make the best magicians, and he happened to be exceptional.

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.

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

Have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must start with sowing excellent thoughts.

Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success.

Living together/ is one move closer/ to living apart

Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity.

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?

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

Must manage your thought life daily and then you can manage your life.

Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.

I want to make a difference with people who want to make a difference, doing something that makes a difference.

Perfect love is perfectly patient.

Growth inside fuels growth outside.

You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

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

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

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

Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.

When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.

You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.

I testify that He is utterly incomparable in what He is, what He knows, what He has accomplished and what He has experienced. Yet, movingly, He calls us His Friends

Dont ever be impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and moving to a higher level of performance always requires change, and change feels awkward. But take comfort in the knowledge that if a change doesn't feel uncomfortable, then it's propably not really a change.

To be cheerful when others are in despair, to keep the faith when others falter, to be true even when we feel forsaken—all of these are deeply desired outcomes during the deliberate, divine tutorials which God gives to us—because He loves us. These learning experiences must not be misread as divine indifference. Instead, such tutorials are a part of the divine unfolding.

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment...For imagination sets the goal ‘picture’ which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of ‘will,’ as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

When the real history of mankind is fully disclosed, will it feature the echoes of gunfire or the shaping sound of lullabies? The great armistices made by military men or the peacemaking of women in homes and in neighborhoods? Will what happened in cradles and kitchens prove to be more controlling than what happened in congresses? When the surf of the centuries has made the great pyramids so much sand, the everlasting family will still be standing, because it is a celestial institution, formed outside telestial time.

Some mothers in today's world feel "cumbered" by home duties and are thus attracted by other more "romantic" challenges. Such women could make the same error of perspective that Martha made. The woman, for instance, who deserts the cradle in order to help defend civilization against the barbarians may well later meet, among the barbarians, her own neglected child.

Since when?” she challenged. “Since when has my heart been with you?” She nodded. He stepped closer and framed her face in his large hands. “Quite possibly from the first time I heard you snort.” He placed a kiss on the tip of her nose. “Very probably when you flirted with our waiter.” A warm kiss on the freckle by her eye. “Almost certainly the first time you fell asleep in my arms.” A small kiss on the opposite cheek. “And most definitely the night we made love.” Finally, a tender kiss on the lips.

It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent either by ideas he has uncritically accepted from others or ideas he has repeated to himself or convinced himself are true. These negative ideas have exactly the same effect upon our behavior as the negative ideas implanted into the mind of a hypnotized subject by a professional hypnotist.

What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a fixative and thereby rescued from oblivion--is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling. Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and possibly it is the work of the storyteller to rearrange things so that they conform to this end. In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw.

In life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with your problems. If the possibility of failure were erased, what would you attempt to achieve? The essence of man is imperfection. Know that you're going to make mistakes. The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does. Wake up and realize this: Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. Achievers are given multiple reasons to believe they are failures. But in spite of that, they persevere. The average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business. When achievers fail, they see it as a momentary event, not a lifelong epidemic. Procrastination is too high a price to pay for fear of failure. To conquer fear, you have to feel the fear and take action anyway. Forget motivation. Just do it. Act your way into feeling, not wait for positive emotions to carry you forward. Recognize that you will spend much of your life making mistakes. If you can take action and keep making mistakes, you gain experience. Life is playing a poor hand well. The greatest battle you wage against failure occurs on the inside, not the outside. Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you? Handicaps can only disable us if we let them. If you are continually experiencing trouble or facing obstacles, then you should check to make sure that you are not the problem. Be more concerned with what you can give rather than what you can get because giving truly is the highest level of living. Embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward. Everything in life brings risk. It's true that you risk failure if you try something bold because you might miss it. But you also risk failure if you stand still and don't try anything new. The less you venture out, the greater your risk of failure. Ironically the more you risk failure — and actually fail — the greater your chances of success. If you are succeeding in everything you do, then you're probably not pushing yourself hard enough. And that means you're not taking enough risks. You risk because you have something of value you want to achieve. The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get. Determining what went wrong in a situation has value. But taking that analysis another step and figuring out how to use it to your benefit is the real difference maker when it comes to failing forward. Don't let your learning lead to knowledge; let your learning lead to action. The last time you failed, did you stop trying because you failed, or did you fail because you stopped trying? Commitment makes you capable of failing forward until you reach your goals. Cutting corners is really a sign of impatience and poor self-discipline. Successful people have learned to do what does not come naturally. Nothing worth achieving comes easily. The only way to fail forward and achieve your dreams is to cultivate tenacity and persistence. Never say die. Never be satisfied. Be stubborn. Be persistent. Integrity is a must. Anything worth having is worth striving for with all your might. If we look long enough for what we want in life we are almost sure to find it. Success is in the journey, the continual process. And no matter how hard you work, you will not create the perfect plan or execute it without error. You will never get to the point that you no longer make mistakes, that you no longer fail. The next time you find yourself envying what successful people have achieved, recognize that they have probably gone through many negative experiences that you cannot see on the surface. Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.