Max Lucado Quotes

There are always things that I think I wish I could have done better.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

My Girl Scout leader. She told me if I listened more and talked less, I could grow up to be a good writer. I thought that was interesting advice at age 12.

I know there are limits to what a coach can accomplish in improving speechmaking unless the subject is a diligent student of himself.

Take some elocution lessons; you can joke with Ebonics, but the truth is, nothing beats the King's English. Learning how to speak properly, and the art of delivery can take you very far in life!

Coach K always wanted me to talk more, even when I was in college. That's something I'm going to do as I get older.

I think, for me, one of the things I've been blessed with is the ability to speak with clarity.

Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.

I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.

I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

There are not many regrets that I have. There are a few things that I wish I'd changed in my life, but they are not so dramatic that I'd go out of my way to change them. But I go back and think about my life so far periodically in my head.

I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, 'Hell, is it too late?'

Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.

I have a lot of regrets, of course I do. I should have taken that part; I should have maybe married that one, I don't know, but I didn't. So I am what I am and I'm pretty confident that I can break in. I think what I have to offer on film and on television is honest.

Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.

The truth is, everything that's happened was supposed to happen. That doesn't mean I don't look back and think, God, I wish I hadn't had to go through some of those things.

I think I'm getting better at being verbal. I used to have a lot of problems with it. I had my own little demons that I was fighting, and I used the banjo as an escape.

There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.

She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite.

Be eager to lend a patient ear to the opinions of others and think long and hard whether whoever finds fault has reason or not to censure you. And if the answer is yes, correct the fault. If no, give the impression that you have not heard him, or if he is a man whom you respect, explain to him why he is mistaken.

Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall - HUNGH

When asked to give a speech never turn it down. It is a chance to develop you and to give new insight to others

We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power.