Donald Miller Stories Quotations

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

Life is a story. You and I are telling stories; they may suck, but we are telling stories. And we tell stories about the things that we want. So you go through your bank account, and those are things you have told stories about.

The heart responds to the conflict within a story.

Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help

The greatest stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.

Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.

the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.

The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.

The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories.

Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.

If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.

The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.

Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.

The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.

It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.

The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.

I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling the people around us.

People who live great stories know failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education.

Great stories move through fear.

Fear isn’t only a guide to keep us safe; it’s also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life … the great stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.

The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.

And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.