John C. Maxwell Quotes

I think more than anything, my health issues were the biggest eye-opener for me. I'm doing better with taking care of myself, but I don't do my best.

My life is littered with bad decisions.

There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.

You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.

One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one’s regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different.

I have ignored my health for years, but recent developments have forced me to re-evaluate my priorities of faith and family.

It was absolutely killing me that I've spent the first 25 years of my life tryin' to avoid bullets. That was always the main concern. Don't go out late. Don't go to any shady neighborhoods. Don't hang in bars alone. Why? Because you wanna avoid bullets. So once I get to 35 then I was like "Woo, okay. Made it." And now there's a new warning. Now it's like strokes; I gotta watch my health.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns, but I was convinced the best was ahead of me.

Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.

When people take greater ownership of their own health care and are encouraged to do that in a health plan, their health gets better. They pursue more wellness opportunities.

Little bits of things make me do it; — perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; — the most ordinary little mistakes, even my own past thoughts to myself about the merest trifles. They are always making me shiver.

Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years?

To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.

You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.

Okay I've been stupid in the past. Not consistently stupid, but occasionally stupid. And I've made mistakes. You bet, I've made mistakes.

I often wonder what would have happened to me if I hadn't made that decision. I suppose I would have sunk. I suppose I would have found some kind of hole and tried to hide or pass. After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities. I would have hidden in my hole and been crippled by my sentimentality, doing what I was doing, and doing it well, but always looking for the wailing wall. And I would never have seen the world as the rich place that it is. You wouldn't have seen me here in Africa, doing what I do.

Now that I'm almost forty, I look back at some of the decisions I made when I was younger - decisions that I thought of as courageous, or generous, or otherwise befitting a writer; befitting someone who had taken it as their life's goal to understand the human condition - and I wish I could go back in time and be like, "Hey, you don't actually have to do that - you're allowed to look out for yourself a little bit."

Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones.

If I had my life to live over, I would never dream

At the end of the day, your health is your responsibility.

Whatever you do, don’t wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life.

I'm the most antimedication person, but some people need medicine, and there was a time where I needed some too.

The one thing that I realize - well, not the one thing, but it was a big thing - having in my head that I need to get healthier. It's been a very gradual process for me.

It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.