John C. Maxwell Quotes

We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

John C. Maxwell

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• I grew up believing that my parents helped change the world. I was so in awe of them, and I wondered how I could measure up. I mean, how do you change the world - again?

  

  Tananarive Due
  • Up
  • World
  • Parents

• It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Winning

• One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Reality
  • Know
  • Talking

• I am a record executive and I shall be right there in your face with my records.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Record
  • Executive

• It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Problems
  • Racial

• Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Why
  • Think
  • Religion

• I find too often in the wrestling business, you just wrestle, get to the hotel, make your money. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself to enjoy my life and not just rush through.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Life
  • Money
  • Business

• If you do write down your passwords, don't make it obvious which password corresponds to which account. Even better, write the passwords incorrectly and make up an easy rule for fixing them. You could decide to add 1 to each number in your password, so that 2x6Y is written as 3x7Y.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
  • Better
  • Write

• I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Time
  • Fanatic

• The Senate Majority Leader has the unilateral ability to stand up and say, 'If you defy Congress, if you defy the Constitution, if you defy the American people, none of your nominees will be confirmed.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• Though not a true cereal but a fruit, buckwheat seeds resemble cereal grains and are often used in a similar way to rice, barley, bulgar or quinoa, usually as a side dish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • True
  • Way
  • Fruit

• If someone tied me down and made me answer the question, singer, actress, clothing designer, I most likely - it could change on any given day, but mostly likely I would lean towards singing. It's where I feel most like myself - on stage singing.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Change
  • Question
  • Day

• You can work hard to sharpen your talent, to get better at whatever it is that you do, and I think that's what it comes back to.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Work
  • Talent
  • Work Hard

• In the Senate, where 60 votes are required to do anything important, you have to work with your colleagues on both sides of the aisle.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Work
  • Important
  • Colleagues

• The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that ultimately, whatever happens, no harm can come. 'Death is perfectly safe,' I like to say.

  

  Ram Dass
  • People
  • Help
  • Death

• Procul omen abesto!

  

  Ovid

• In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• Chroniclers habitually matched numbers to the awesomeness of the event.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman

• What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Great
  • Trying
  • History

• We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort.

  

  John Ashcroft
  • Effort

• It's how I've lived my life. You show up, work hard, and be humble.

  

  Kurt Johnstad
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Business
  • Mistake

• We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.

  

  John C. Maxwell