Myles Munroe famous quotes

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.
-- Myles Munroe

#Discovery #Self #Life Is

True leaders are born when you find something to die for
-- Myles Munroe

#Leader #Born #True Leader

The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality.
-- Myles Munroe

#Dream #Reality #Men

The first basic need of a male is sexual fulfillment; for a female, affection. The second most basic need of a male is recreational companionship; for a female, communication and conversation. The third basic need of a male in a relationship is an attractive woman; for a woman, honesty and openness. The fourth basic need of a male is domestic support; for a female, financial support. The fifth basic need of a male is admiration and respect; for a woman, family commitment.
-- Myles Munroe

#Honesty #Communication #Commitment

People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Every person is either a creator of fact or a creature of circumstance. He either puts color into his environment, or, like a chameleon, takes color from his environment.
-- Myles Munroe

#Relationship #Fall #Color

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction, and you will not have to worry about your feet.
-- Myles Munroe

#Heart #Feet #Worry

The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.
-- Myles Munroe

#Relationship #Tragedy #Purpose

Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to hide behind deceptive words and actions.
-- Myles Munroe

#Relationship #Character #Personal Growth

God did not create woman from man’s head, that he should command her, nor from his feet, that she should be his slave, but rather from his side, that she should be near his heart.
-- Myles Munroe

#Heart #Men #Feet

You are capable of much more than you are presently thinking, imagining, doing or being.
-- Myles Munroe

#Positive #Thinking #Being Positive

Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God.
-- Myles Munroe

#Two #Perfect #People

...success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done.
-- Myles Munroe

#Done #Comparison

It is the same way with dating. The time you are most prepared for dating is when you don't need anyone to complete you, fulfill you, or instill in you a sense of worth or purpose.
-- Myles Munroe

#Dating #Way #Needs

Divine Law is not subject nor affected by the majority vote of humanity
-- Myles Munroe

#Law #Humanity #Majority

There is no limit to what the Lord can do in and with and through any individual or any married couple who surrender themselves and their resources completely to His will and His way.
-- Myles Munroe

#Relationship #Marriage #Couple

No matter how good or bad we may feel, no matter how up or down we may be, Christ loves us, accepts us, and thinks the world of us.
-- Myles Munroe

#Relationship #Marriage #Thinking

Marital faithfulness involves more than just sexual fidelity. Being faithful to your wife also means defending her and affirming her beauty, intelligence, and integrity at all times, particularly before other people. Faithfulness to your husband means sticking up for him, always building him up and never tearing him down. Marital fidelity means that your spouse’s health, happiness, security, and welfare take a higher place in your life than anything else except your own relationship with the Lord.
-- Myles Munroe

#Husband #Integrity #Mean

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live. And most people are concerned about growing old rather than being effective.
-- Myles Munroe

#Long #People #Important

When purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable
-- Myles Munroe

#Abuse #Purpose #Inevitable

You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.
-- Myles Munroe

#Relationship #World #Personal Growth

Being open to correction means making ourselves vulnerable, and many people are not willing to do that.
-- Myles Munroe

#Relationship #Mean #People

The greatest failure in life is being successful in the wrong assignment.
-- Myles Munroe

#Successful #Life Is #Assignments

Marriage is a school of learning.
-- Myles Munroe

#School

God may not explain Himself, but He will reveal Himself.
-- Myles Munroe

#May

You are not saved for the sole purpose of going to heaven; you are saved to finish your assignment on earth
-- Myles Munroe

#Heaven #Earth #Purpose

You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.
-- Myles Munroe

#Long #Important

True success is what you have done compared to what you could have done.
-- Myles Munroe

#Done

Your faith is only as strong as the test it survives
-- Myles Munroe

#Strong #Tests

God never demands anything that He does not provide for. Whatever God commands us to do, He equips us to do.
-- Myles Munroe

#Demand #Doe #Command

The poorest man in the world is a man without a dream.
-- Myles Munroe

#Dream #Men #World

Vision is the Source and hope of life.  The greatest gift ever given to mankind is not the gift of sight, but the gift of vision.  Sight is a function of the eyes; vision is a function of the heart. ‘Eyes that look are common, but eyes that see are rare.’  Nothing noble or noteworthy on earth was ever done without vision.
-- Myles Munroe

#Eye #Heart #Sight

The wealthiest places in the world are not gold mines, oil fields, diamond mines or banks. The wealthiest place is the cemetery. There lies companies that were never started, masterpieces that were never painted… In the cemetery there is buried the greatest treasure of untapped potential. There is a treasure within you that must come out. Don’t go to the grave with your treasure still within YOU.
-- Myles Munroe

#Lying #Oil #Gold

Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying.
-- Myles Munroe

#Trying #Absence #Neglect

The graveyard is the richest place on the surface of the earth because there you will see the books that were not published, ideas that were not harnessed, songs that were not sung, and drama pieces that were never acted.
-- Myles Munroe

#Song #Drama #Book

Circumstances and crises are God's tools to move you into your purpose and the maximizing of your potential.
-- Myles Munroe

#Moving #Purpose #Maximizing

Your future is not ahead of you, it's trapped within you
-- Myles Munroe

#Self Improvement #Improvement #Your Future

If you have hope for the future you have true riches; no matter how much you have in your account
-- Myles Munroe

#Matter #Riches #Hope For The Future

We were placed on earth to fulfil a purpose, and that purpose is what gives meaning to our lives, you were sent to the world to make an impact and make a difference
-- Myles Munroe

#Differences #Impact #Giving

God’s love sets us free from the need to seek approval. Knowing that we are loved by God, accepted by God, approved by God, and that we are new creations in Christ empowers us to reject self-rejection and embrace a healthy self-love. Being secure in God’s love for us, our love for Him, and our love for ourselves, prepares us to fulfill the second greatest commandment: To love our neighbor as ourselves.
-- Myles Munroe

#Love Is #Self #Knowing

You came to earth to answer a question God knew would be asked. You are the solution to a problem in your generation.
-- Myles Munroe

#Generations #Answers #Earth

A promise is a commitment to do something later, and a vow is a binding commitment to begin doing something now and to continue to do it for the duration of the vow. Some vows, or contracts, are for life; others are for limited periods of time.
-- Myles Munroe

#Commitment #Promise #Duration

The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness
-- Myles Munroe

#Greatness #Men #Compassion

You are designed by God not to blend in, but to stand out
-- Myles Munroe

#Standing Out

Hard work and diligence are essential to success, but they require an internal motivation. That internal motivation is Vision
-- Myles Munroe

#Motivation #Hard Work #Vision

Healthy relationships should always begin at the spiritual and intellectual levels - the levels of purpose, motivation, interests, dreams,and personality.
-- Myles Munroe

#Dream #Spiritual #Motivation

We are not to be so concerned about who approves or disapproves of us, but remember that God's approval is what counts. Those whom God approves are approved indeed.
-- Myles Munroe

#Approval #Remember #Concerned

Few people who marry plan for their marriages to fail, but neither do they specifically plan for success.
-- Myles Munroe

#Relationship #Marriage #People

Praise must be learned in private before it is exhibited in public.
-- Myles Munroe

#Praise

A man leads with his mind while a woman leads with her heart.
-- Myles Munroe

#Relationship #Marriage #Heart

For a woman, language spoken is an expression of what she is feeling. For a man, language spoken is an expression of what he is thinking. A woman says what is on her heart while a man says what is on his mind.
-- Myles Munroe

#Heart #Men #Thinking

A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.
-- Myles Munroe

#Maturity #Dating #Matter

Don't be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams. Govern your life by priorities not your pressures.
-- Myles Munroe

#Dream #Priorities #Pressure

Man is like an onion. His potential is exposed one layer at a time until all he is, is known by all.
-- Myles Munroe

#Men #Onions #Layers

Purpose is when you know and understand what you were born to accomplish. Vision is when you see it in your mind and begin to imagine it
-- Myles Munroe

#Mind #Vision #Purpose

You are meant to be going somewhere, to be headed to a destination. The poorest person in the world is a person without a dream
-- Myles Munroe

#Dream #World #Destination

God’s will and desire—His pleasure—is that we love Him. We cannot please God unless we love Him. We cannot love Him unless we know Him, and we cannot know Him unless we have faith in Him.
-- Myles Munroe

#Desire #Have Faith #Pleasure

The bible does not say that a man's education makes room for him, but that his gifts does. Education is not the key to success, it doesn,t guarantee anything; it is your gift that is the key to success
-- Myles Munroe

#Men #Keys #Doe

We will never obtain God's kind of marriage simply by going along with the crowd, doing what everybody else does. We have to dig deep into the heart of God to discover His principles.
-- Myles Munroe

#Heart #Crowds #Principles

Humility is simply believing and accepting what God says about us, and God says that we are anything but worthless.
-- Myles Munroe

#Believe #Humility #Accepting

One of the greatest enemies to vision is sight!
-- Myles Munroe

#Sight #Vision #Enemy

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.
-- Myles Munroe

#Giving Up #Way #Surrender

A wedding is and event, but marriage is a life.
-- Myles Munroe

#Wedding #Events

Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work.
-- Myles Munroe

#Relationship #Communication #Mean

A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion.
-- Myles Munroe

#Beautiful #Character #Men

When certain parts of our bodies are touched, certain enzymes and chemicals that trigger sexual desire are released into our system. The more our bodies are stimulated, the more chemicals are released and the greater our sexual desire grows until it becomes a virtually unstoppable flood.
-- Myles Munroe

#Desire #Enzymes #Body

Great leaders have no need for reputation. Reputation is what you are in public. Character is who you are in private.
-- Myles Munroe

#Character #Leader #Needs

Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose.
-- Myles Munroe

#Inspiration #Passion #Vision

We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.
-- Myles Munroe

#Taught

Your work is not your job. Your job is what they pay you to do; your work is what you were born to do.
-- Myles Munroe

#Jobs #Pay #Born