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, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Age
  • Energy
  • Exhausted

• 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

• My motto has always been that you can't say, 'Oh, it won't happen to me.' You have to say, 'That can happen to me.' So always be aware that things can happen.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Me
  • Always
  • Things

• 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

• Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Real
  • Health
  • Care

• 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

• There is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and never return. (Hays translation)

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Time
  • Free

• Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

  

  Aristotle
  • Virtue
  • Extremes
  • Vice

• I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war.

  

  Peter Abelard
  • War

• Certainly toward the end of the season, you and I could be in a ballpark and they might say the crowd is 30,000, and we could look around and see that there was no more than 10,000.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • End
  • Look
  • Season

• After ten years in therapy, my psychologist told me something very touching, he said, “no hablo ingles.”

  

  Dennis Wolfberg
  • Therapy
  • Touching
  • Psychologist

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

  

  John C. Maxwell