Here’s a statement of success by Robert Frost. ‘He said, the best way out is always through.’ You know what Mr. Frost was saying? The tendency is that when we’re going through difficulties, we don’t think of through. We think of turning around. We think of taking exits. In fact, we’re looking around and saying, where’s the exit sign?

Jim Rohn said, ‘Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change’. Wow! What Jim Rohn was really saying to us is that life is not the lottery that we think it is, where we’re just waiting for our lucky day, our time, our moment, our number to come up.

Today, right now in your life, my life, we are either preparing or we are repairing. One [person] sets up tomorrow for success. The other [person] sets up today for failure. If we are repairing, we can’t even get into tomorrow.

There’s a statement that I often make that I want to give to you today. And the statement is, Your first step to success is having the confidence that you will succeed. In fact, the only reason we take the first step is because we have confidence.

My good friend, Robert Schuller, has said something many times to me. Perhaps you’ve read it in one of his books. It’s a great statement: ‘Tough times never last, but tough people do.’

This is a quote that I’ve given often. It’s a quote on decisions, and here it is: It is our decisions, not our conditions, that determine the quality of our life. Now, if you would ask the average person on the street the question: Is it the conditions of life or the decisions of life that are most important?

So here’s one by Martin Luther King. ‘We must accept finite disappointment, but we never lose infinite hope.’ What he was saying is that disappointment is finite. This too shall pass. We have a period where we’re going through a dark time.

Hi John Maxwell here. I’m glad you came today and are with me on Minute with Maxwell. I hope you’re sharing these strengths statements with your friends because I’m giving them to you intentionally to be a lifter during a heavy time. To be light during the dark time.

Albert Einstein said, “In the middle of the difficulty lies opportunity.” Now he was a very smart guy, Albert. We know that. So where does he say opportunity lies? Does he say it lies in the beginning, in the front? Or does he say it lies in the back? Well, you see, he tells us that it’s in the middle.

Hi, John Maxwell here. Henry Ford said, “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”

Welcome to Minute with Maxwell. I love that quote by Henry Ford because it’s so true. He’s basically saying that the airplane has no chance of getting off the ground unless it has some opposition.