Max Lucado Quotes

I don't want to jump off the roof or jump for joy depending on my movie reviews, or whether it makes money. I think the larger, more meaningful things are family and the people you love.

Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.

We all say in our own lives that money isn't everything. Love matters, friendships matter. My relationship with my kids matters. It shouldn't be a giant leap to take that thought and introduce it into political dialogue

It's fine to be on the hamster wheel, running and running, trying to grab the brass ring or whatever you define as success, but your relationships, that's really all that matters when it's all said and done.

You find out that all this stuff you've accumulated, you could care less about it. It's just the relationships that matter.

I hope that I can make music that helps people in some way or that they can connect with, and that I can just live a life where I'm surrounded by people that I love.

Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know.

The reason for living is to have great relationships, to have people you love and respect and who love and respect you.

I get hired more then I get seen more. I get seen more then maybe celebrity and fame happens but at the end of the day there's no difference between my five dollar performance and my fifty million dollar performance. It's not going to make me a better father.

Happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.

There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.

Nothing is more important to me than my family, my faith, and my friends.

Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don't matter, and seeing the value of working on cultivating connection with family and close friends.

Relationships, not achievements or the acquisition of things, are what matters most in life.

Physics is not the most important thing. Love is.

Find your passion and follow it. You wont find that passion in things or money. Your passion must come from what fuels you from the inside. It will be grounded in the relationships you have with people and what they think of you when your time comes.

Love is better than Fame.

Love gives life purpose and meaning.

In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office

I've had a pretty good lesson in human nature. It's more important to try to surround yourself with people who can give you a little happiness, because you only pass through this life once, Jack. You don't come back for an encore.

The times in my life when I have been most happy haven't been the times when I have had the most money or the most freedom or the most anything, but rather when I've been in love or in community or right with people.

Success is having people love you that you want to have love you.

The greatest treasures of your life are associated with the people you love and who love you in return.

It doesn't matter, that's the point. It doesn't matter that things don't always work exactly the way you thought they should. Moments matter. People matter, how they feel, how they connect. Who they are alone and together. All that matters, no matter how quickly the moment passes. Maybe because it passes.

I've never understood people that sleep around. I think there's something very lacking in your life when you do, not to be judgmental.