Myles Munroe Quotations

Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.

When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.

Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities.

You weren't born just to live a life and to die; you were born to accomplish something specifically. Matter of fact, success is making it to the end of your purpose; that is success... Success is not just existing. Success is making it to the end of why you were born.

True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people.

The people who have impacted the world didn't live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history,

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.

The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of the laws of God creating a social environment where the strong help the weak, where those who have give to those who don't. It's a society where relationships are built on love.

Don't die old, die empty. That's the goal of life. Go to the cemetery and disappoint the graveyard.

Whenever they sang a certain song in church, I used to sing it the loudest: 'Lead me, guide me, along the way!' One day, as I was singing this song, I felt as if the Lord was saying to me, 'Lead you along what way?' I realized then that if you don't have a plan, God doesn't have anything specific to direct you in.

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

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

Whenever I talk about the Bahamas and its beauty, I could never stop talking about my God, who has given us all of this beauty.

I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.

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

So what do you desire to do? What do you really want to do as a person? You need to stop and document that; write it down; make a plan; and then God says, 'I'll direct your steps.'

We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute.

Trust is a product of test over time.

Every human heart cries and yearns for the same thing: a chance to fulfill his or her own dreams and desires. Even the poorest man has a dream.

God's purpose is more important than our plans.

Nothing is more difficult than trying to correct history.

It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it.

I think leadership is not something you learn; it's something you discover.

Young people all over the world are very frustrated. They are very disillusioned. Many of them are turning their back on religion. They are walking away from the faith of their parents, and most of this is because religion has failed them.

I discovered who I was when I discovered God. You are just like your father God.

It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.

Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.

When man fell from grace, he lost a kingdom, not a religion. He lost dominion over the earth; He did not lose Heaven. Therefore, mankind's search is not for a religion or for Heaven but for his kingdom.

I was born on an island with 96 percent of the people black. But all the power and the economy was in the hands of white people who only formed four per cent.

I went from one state of life to another state of life by obeying, understanding, and applying the principles that are laid down in the Bible.

Principles are laws that are established by the creator or the manufacturer by which a product functions. If you violate those laws, then you produce malfunction, which is what we call failure. If you obey those laws and align yourself with those laws, then you are guaranteed success.

God designed the world in such a way that everything functions on principles. Principles are eternal laws established and inherent in creation that make creation function.

Many people are leaders trapped in a follower's body.

Leadership is birthed out of anger!

We need to put people in positions of authority in government, business, law, medicine, media, sports and entertainment who are filled with the laws of God so that we can bring those laws into effect.

We need to stop focusing on people leaving earth and focus on, like Jesus said, the Kingdom of God is the yeast. Yeast invades dough.

Culture is a product of law. And laws create norms for society. This is why anyone who wants to change the culture of a country must try to change the norms of the country.

Everything in life is built on principles - plants, seas, birds, all of the natural elements of nature, they all follow and obey certain basic fundamental principles.

The first word Jesus used in His earthly ministry was repent. Repent means to change the way you've been conditioned to think, and I believe that is the only way we are going to see the impact of the original concepts and idea of God.

We need to challenge our own theology, challenge the curriculum of our Bible schools and our seminaries, and ask simple questions. Are we teaching and producing ministers who have the right message?

Leadership will either lead you into a ditch or lead you into purpose. We need our leaders, especially those who are teaching our young people, to have the right message.

Leadership potential exists in everybody. What I think we have missed is that we have somehow relegated leadership only to a special, talented few people.

Every human being was created to dominate and lead in an area of gifting.

The Bible is really not a religious book but a divine manual written by the manufacturer of humanity by which the product man is supposed to live. If we learn those principles and obey them, then we find that the process of failure to success becomes more inevitability than experiment.

No matter how many people celebrate your gifts, don't ever think that you are more important to them than your gift is to them. This is why many people fail: They fail because they think that people came to follow them.

We need to define what culture is. Every human being lives within a culture, and culture means "To grow in." It means to literally fall, and this is exactly what I believe is happening all around us right now.

If you keep your perspective correct and understand that people are coming to you because your gift makes room for you in the world, then you do not need to wonder or worry about having to misplace your importance as a person.

I believe that if you are talking about economic stress, the systems of the world are very fragile, and if we put our hope and trust in the systems that men have created, they will guarantee failure.

I am convinced that God Himself is tampering with the economic system of the world to reduce us back to Him.

I can guarantee people, then, that if they learn, discover, understand, explore, and apply the same principles that I learned, that success is predictable.

You must keep a careful, correct perspective on life that this is not about me but about me serving my gift to the world.

We need people in the areas that create laws and policies who are filled with the Kingdom so that those laws can become the fabric of our social development.

All societies establish laws that become norms. Those norms create the environment that incubates society. So, when you implement the laws of God in society, they produce a culture of heaven.

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

Once a man and woman have married, the only thing they should receive from their parents is advice and counsel, and then only when they ask for it. Parents should not offer opinions or advice without being asked.

Love in marriage is more than just a feeling or an emotion; it is a choice.

You came into this world pregnant with unlimited potential.

We each were endowed at birth with a unique gift, something we were born to do or become that no one else can achieve the way we can. God's purpose is that we bear abundant fruit and release the blessings of our gift and potential to the world.

Headship is not rulership; it is leadership.

You do not have to marry in order not to be alone- all you need not to be alone is to have some other humans to be your companions and close friends.

Every person is born with a seed of greatness.

Let me define prayer for you in this show. Prayer is man giving God permission or license to interfere in earth's affairs. In other words, prayer is earthly license for heavenly interference.

God had no problem with the man's separateness, his uniqueness, or his wholeness.

Learn to recognize and combat the enemies of potential.

Don't ever become so preoccupied by who you want to be that you forget to be who you are.

True leadership is an attitude that naturally inspires and motivates others, and it comes from an internalized discovery about yourself.

Learning comes from education, while knowing comes from revelation. Learning is cognitive, while knowing is spiritual.

The secret to greatness is in serving everyone else.

Though every human being on the planet has an inclination for leadership, most of us do not have the courage to cultivate it.

The shortest distance to leadership is service.

Whatever you compromise to gain, you will lose.

No matter who you are, you have the nature and capacity for leadership.

The self-discovery of your inherent leadership potential and an understanding of who you are and what you are meant to be are the keys to fulfilling your purpose from existence as a leader.

Each of us was created to rule, govern, control, master, manage, and lead our environments. You are in essence a leader, no matter who you are.

We are the products of a highly intelligent and creative supreme being.

We live our lives based on who we think we are.

There is nothing more powerful as attitude.

We were not designed to be dominated.

Rulership is in our genes, dominion is in our makeup. We were designed to rule the earth.

It's safer to do nothing and know why you doing it, than to do something and don't know why you do it.

If we are focusing on our needs, the relationship is in trouble.

True Leadership is the authority given by the trust of the followers to use power for the benefit of all.

Success is not a pursuit...but the result of obedience to the Divien and Natural laws of Life established by the Creator

Every conscientious husband and wife should measure their marriage by the unchanging standard of the principles found in God's Word.

When you get before great people you don't talk a lot, you ask questions

Success is the potential destiny of all created things

The highest manifestation of true leadership is to identify one’s replacement and to begin mentoring him or her.

The third basic need of a male in a relationship is an attractive woman; for a woman, honesty and openness.

True leaders respect and honor authority but are comfortable in its presence.

The leadership spirit possess a natural love for all human beings.

Anyone who develops his gifts and talents will become a commodity

When we evaluate the rightness or wrongness of actions or behavior, we need to ask ourselves if that behavior will edify—build up—ourselves or someone else, or if it will tear down. The question is not what we can get away with, but what is healthy and edifying. When it is all said and done, are we edified spiritually? Have we been built up and strengthened in our relationship with the Lord or with our spouse, or have we been weakened? Do we come away encouraged or discouraged, confident or filled with a sense of guilt or shame? Is our conscience clean?

You have to choose to manifest your leadership nature.

Leadership success is measured by the success of your successor.

Don't be a pigeon if you were born to be an eagle. Experience God's altitude for your life.

Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure for morality, judgment, and justice.

Leadership is inherent in our nature and is fundamental to our origins, our human makeup -and our destiny.

The nature of the leadership spirit is the inherent desire of all mankind to control and regulate both environment and circumstance.

We manifest character when self-sacrifice for the sake of our principles becomes more important than compromise for the sake of popularity.

Marriage will not solve "aloneness."