John C. Maxwell Quotes

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

John C. Maxwell

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• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Ability
  • Will

• Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Chinese
  • Making
  • Nobody

• I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Running
  • Politician
  • Become

• Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.

  

  Jack Herer
  • World
  • Religious
  • Creative

• It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

  

  Tacitus
  • Difficult
  • Pleasure
  • Bear

• All the terrorists are basically migrants.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Terrorists
  • Basically

• Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Evil

• The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Business
  • Political
  • Drunk

• When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Hate
  • Violence
  • Police

• I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Innovation
  • New Things

• There will always be women who say, 'She doesn't represent me.' In retrospect, these things are gifts, because it forces me to step up and defend what I'm doing.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Up
  • Women
  • She

• The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Society
  • Value
  • Social

• No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Bad
  • Poetry
  • Person

• I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.

  

  Patrick Roy
  • Help
  • Challenge
  • Daily

• There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Men
  • Women
  • Step

• The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Children
  • Faces
  • Animals

• Central banks need to be able to buy bonds if there are short-term malfunctions of the markets. But buying bonds without differentiation and without limits would be very problematic.

  

  Lars Feld
  • Need
  • Limits
  • Without

• Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Time
  • Live
  • You

• When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Good
  • Father
  • Voice

• Is that the longest fifth set ever? It was? So, no, I've never played one longer than that!

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Tennis
  • Fifth

• I did a very stupid diet where you have three food groups, and you never eat them together. It's so bloody tedious; I'm losing the will to live just describing it. I managed to stay very thin because you spent your life wandering around starving hungry looking for a chickpea to go with a chicken leg.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Hungry
  • Diet
  • Wandering

• I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Child
  • Very
  • Ambitious

• We came into a homeless frontier, a place where we were not welcome, where nothing that lived was welcome, where thought and logic were abhorrent and we were frightened, but we went into this place because the universe lay before us, and if we were to know ourselves, we must know the universe...

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Universe
  • Logic
  • Homeless

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

  

  John C. Maxwell
  • Fear
  • Mistake