Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

I say to a lot of people you have to measure success in terms of progress, not in terms of end state.

In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.

When I meet with most entrepreneurial teams, I ask them a simple question: How do you know that you're making progress? Most of them really can't answer that question.

Coaching helps you take stock of where you are now in all aspects of your life, and how that compares to where you would like to be.

Your success has to be measured against yourself - a decade ago, last year, or yesterday.

I want to continue to improve season after season, which I think I've done.

There's no comparison to competition. You can't tell yourself truly where you're at unless you compete in competition.

In order to see truly where I am and where I want to go, I need to remember where I once was.

You review a game. You don't brush over anything you did well and look at anything you could improve. There's stuff to get better at, it's not hard to find.

The way I work, I always ask myself, 'What did go well this year, and what do we need to work on?' I always have a plan in my head.

I'm learning. Watching video. Understanding what I'm good at, what I'm not good at.

I have in my mind that I want to improve every day, I have to analyse if I want to achieve this.

I am always trying to improve and see my weakness and work on it.

I don't know if there's ever a point where you go, 'Oh, I'm successful now. Look at all this great stuff I've done,' because I don't think it can be tangible in that way.

I always compare myself to what I did last, so I've got to try and beat what I did last. I'm always upping my own bar.

I know that sounds weird, but I always compete with myself. If I do something, I always look at a chart and say I can do better the next week.

Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: "What's good in my life?" and "What needs to be done?"

Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have. The remark of that it is more blessed to give than to receive is based on the human truth that the more you give away in love, the more you are. It is not just for the sake of other people that tells us to give rather than get, but for our own sakes too.

Our goals should serve as markers, measurements of the progress we make in pursuit of something greater than ourselves.

You should look ahead now and decide what you want to do with your lives. Fix clearly in your mind what you want to be one year from now, five years, ten years, and beyond. Write your goals and review them regularly. Keep them before you constantly, record your progress, and revise them as circumstances dictate.

I was never appalled by myself. I felt a little bit uneasy about certain things. But honestly I've learned to love myself and to see that in the midst of all my ambition and desire to succeed and my search for approval, I do give things to people. I bring some sort of happiness to their lives. So I'm not so hard on myself anymore.

Raising your level of performance requires a proper mentality and meaning from within. This gives you the ability and drive to work on the things necessary to go to a higher level. When people ask me how to raise their level of performance, the first thing I ask is, How important is it to you?

I'm just appreciative of everything that has happened in my life. I'm overwhelmed, sometimes, by this. When I see where I grew up and the places I've been, it puts a smile on my face because of all the people there I can help. I give them food; I give them money; I try to provide them with a good lifestyle, and do the best I can because that's where I came from. Those are my people.

At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.

It's a question we all ask ourselves. What have we done lately? It rattles us each birthday.