John C. Maxwell Quotes

Without failure there is no achievement.

John C. Maxwell

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• There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • No Fear

• Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.

  

  Karen O
  • Pretty
  • Rock
  • Road

• I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.

  

  Tate Taylor
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Mother
  • Say
  • Angels

• I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • Work
  • Dad
  • Thought

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • People
  • Great
  • Question

• I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Responsibility
  • Writer
  • Critical

• If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Believe
  • You
  • Someone

• I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Up
  • Family
  • School

• I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • World
  • Movie
  • Night

• When President Ronald Reagan negotiated some significant arms reduction deals with the then-Soviet Union, he was considered a real hero, someone who was advocating for peace.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Real
  • Peace
  • Hero

• I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Interested
  • Slickness

• Strauss Group continues to strengthen its future growth engines, improve the company's competitive position, and increase market share, while continuing streamlining processes, improvements, and carrying out organizational adjustments in the company.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Future
  • Growth
  • Company

• I never, ever thought I would be able to grow a beard like I have now. I think it's gonna be here for a little minute. Fear the beard, hopefully.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Fear
  • Thought
  • Beard

• I'd say, for my freshman year in college, I was doing everything in my power to hide the fact that I had ever had any association with the Paul Green School of Rock Music because it was like this bruise. It was such a sore subject.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Music
  • School
  • Power

• A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Good
  • Mind
  • True

• Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Friends
  • Better
  • Shots

• I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Good
  • Work
  • Painting

• No matter how grouchy you're feeling, You'll find the smile more or less healing. It grows in a wreath All around the front teeth - Thus preserving the face from congealing.

  

  Anthony Euwer
  • Feeling
  • Face
  • Healing

• Without failure there is no achievement.

  

  John C. Maxwell
  • Failure
  • Achievement