Myles Munroe Quotes & Sayings

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

If your vision dies with you, you failed. — Myles Munroe

You came into this world pregnant with unlimited potential. — Myles Munroe

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. — Myles Munroe

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

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

We were not designed to be dominated. — Myles Munroe

You become a leader when you decide to be an original and not a copy. — Myles Munroe

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

If you want to become successful, seek to become a person of value — Myles Munroe

The highest manifestation of true leadership is to identify one's replacement and to begin mentoring him or her. — Myles Munroe

In life, purpose is defined by the thing that makes you angry. Martin Luther was angry; Mandela was angry; Mahatma Gandhi was angry; Mother Teresa was angry. If you are not angry, you do not have a ministry yet. — Myles Munroe

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. — Myles Munroe

Love is an ongoing debt that we owe each other, a debt that should never be paid off. Paul made this clear when he wrote to the believers in Rome, "Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law" (Rom. 13:8). If we get into the habit of thinking of ourselves as always owing a debt of love to our spouses, we will be less inclined to take offense when they say or do something that we do not like. — Myles Munroe

I go to goth clubs dressed as a frat guy so I can stand around and look terribly uncomfortable. At frat parties I do the same thing, but the other way around. — Myles Munroe

Failure is predictable if you break laws, success is predictable if you obey laws. I discovered and learned that truth when I was 14 years old. Not everyone discovers that. Some people take a lifetime to learn that. — Myles Munroe

Leadership is birthed out of anger! — Myles Munroe

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. — Myles Munroe

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. — Myles Munroe

It is therefore vital for you to understand that being single-" separate, unique, and whole"- is most essential to, and the foundation of, not only marital relationships but all relationships. — Myles Munroe

Trust is a product of test over time. — Myles Munroe

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

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

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

The greatest act of leadership is mentoring. No matter how much you may learn, achieve, accumulate, or accomplish, if it all dies with you, then you are a generational failure. — Myles Munroe

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. — Myles Munroe

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. — Myles Munroe

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. — Myles Munroe

The adversary's global attack on marriage is actually an attack on society itself, and ultimately an attack on God, the creator and manufacturer of society and marriage. The adversary knows that if he can destroy marriage he can destroy families; if he can destroy families he can destroy society; and if he can destroy society he can destroy humanity. — Myles Munroe

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

And prefers to sit out a problem rather than sweat out a solution. That nonchalant and perfunctory attitude is a powerful tool of satan in his efforts to retard the growth of God's Kingdom. — Myles Munroe

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

If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else, for each one should carry his own load [responsibility] (Galatians 6:3-5). — Myles Munroe

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. — Myles Munroe

If you are aware that people are coming to you to receive your gift and not necessarily to you as the person, it keeps you very humble. Many people make the mistake of confusing the attraction of people to their lives as something that has to do with them as a person or a personality, and this is very dangerous and not true. — Myles Munroe

The poorest person on earth is the person without faith. — Myles Munroe

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

The greatest challenge of Leadership maintaining personal conviction in a globalized world. — Myles Munroe

We are products of our culture and interpret the world through our mental conditioning. — Myles Munroe

If you are going to help people discover God's original will for them, we've got to know what that will is, and He said it very clear in Scripture: He created man to have to dominion over earth. He wanted to establish man's authority on earth to represent heaven on earth, and most of our theological philosophy is completely opposite of that. — Myles Munroe

the most awesome power every human being possesses: the power to influence earth from heaven through prayer. — Myles Munroe

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. — Myles Munroe

Attitude creates your world and designs your destiny. — Myles Munroe

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

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

When you discover your gift and authority, that gift attracts people. When people come to you, they are not really coming to you for you but for the gift and the vision that you are serving the humanity of your generation with. — Myles Munroe

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

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

Don't accept your present state in life as final, because it is just that, a state. — Myles Munroe

Great leadership is not attained by pursuing greatness but by persevering through great tests. — Myles Munroe

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

His Kingdom on this earth was to rule the visible world of man from the invisible realm of the spirit. — Myles Munroe

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

Every human has a seed of greatness buried in a gift needed by the world. — Myles Munroe

There is nothing more powerful as attitude. — Myles Munroe

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

Marriage will not solve "aloneness." — Myles Munroe

Leadership success is measured by the success of your successor. — Myles Munroe

Desire is craving enough to sacrifice for — Myles Munroe

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

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

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

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. — Myles Munroe

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

We live our lives based on who we think we are. — Myles Munroe

The worst mistake a leader can make is to mentor no one, choose no successor and leave no legacy. — Myles Munroe

Faithfulness to your husband means sticking up for him, always building him up and never tearing him down. — Myles Munroe

Purpose gives birth to hope and instills the passion to act. — Myles Munroe

The greatest enemy of progress is your last success, you could become so proud of what you've already accomplished that you stop moving ahead to what you can still accomplish — Myles Munroe

If you don't attempt things, you don't attract God. — Myles Munroe

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

My greatest fear is that the spirit of religion is lurking in so many churches today. Instead of men and women of God preaching about and applying Kingdom principles to everyday living, they have given the spirit of religion the power to cloud the path of others. — Myles Munroe

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

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

The leadership spirit comes with a spirit of leadership. — Myles Munroe

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

Success in the present is only achieved when you put your focus where you want your future. — Myles Munroe

Nothing is more difficult than trying to correct history. — Myles Munroe

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? — Myles Munroe

True leadership is measured by what happens after you die. — Myles Munroe

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? — Myles Munroe

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

Your value in life is determined by the problems you solve through your gift. — Myles Munroe

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. — Myles Munroe

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

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

I discovered that success has very little to do with education or race or disposition; it has more to do with principles and following those principles. — Myles Munroe

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

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. — Myles Munroe

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

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

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. — Myles Munroe

You can never change what you don't confront and transform what you avoid. — Myles Munroe

The secret to greatness is in serving everyone else. — Myles Munroe

Basic stewardship of resources for married couples who are believers centers around understanding and practicing two fundamental financial principles: tithing and budgeting. Herein lie the seeds of dominion - the secrets of fruitfulness, increase, and filling. Tithing recognizes God as the source of our resources while budgeting recognizes our responsibility — Myles Munroe

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

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

Find your domain and serve it to the world. — Myles Munroe

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. — Myles Munroe

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