Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

Character is a journey, not a destination.

Intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

All experience is good experience.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together a healthy, wealthy and wise trilogy and so healthy was 'The 4-Hour Body,' wealthy was 'The 4-Hour Workweek' and then wise is 'The 4-Hour Chef.'

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week.

By the time I'm 90, I hope to have it together.

After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time.

I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.

There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

I think that between 27 and 37 was a really big learning decade.

The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.