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64 Inspirational Myles Munroe Quotes to Fire You Up
Myles Munroe was a Bahamian Christian evangelist, an ordained Pentecostal minister, public speaker, and author who was the founder of Bahamas Faith Ministries International.
Myles Munroe was born on April 20, 1954 and died in November of 2014 at age 60 from a private plane crash with 8 others including his wife on the way to a leadership conference.
Munroe became a Christian at the age of 14. He graduated from Oral Roberts University in 1978 and receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Education and Theology. He then went on to earn his Masters in Administration at University of Tulsa in 1980. He also received honorary doctoral degrees at various higher educational schools and served as a complementary professor of the Graduate School of Theology at ORU.
Myles Munroe was a highly inspirational speaker and was loved all over the world for his positive attitude, service, and success.
Below are 64 inspirational Myles Munroe quotes to fire you up:
1. “Your job is your skill that they can fire you from at any time. But your work is your gift. No one can take that from you. – Myles Munroe
2. “The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.” – Myles Munroe
3. “When purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable.” – Myles Munroe
4. “Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.” – Myles Munroe
5. “Healthy relationships should always begin at the spiritual and intellectual levels: the levels
of purpose, motivation, interests, dreams,and personality.” – Myles Munroe
6. “Your purpose can be fulfilled only during the time you are given on earth to accomplish it.” – Myles Munroe
7. “Solid character will reflect itself in consistent behavior, while poor character will seek to
hide behind deceptive words and actions.” – Myles Munroe
8. “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
9. “Being open to correction means making ourselves vulnerable, and many people are not willing to do that.” – Myles Munroe
10. “Friendship is not a gift, but is the result of hard work.” – Myles Munroe
11. “Leaders don’t seek followers. Followers are attracted to leaders.” – Myles Munroe
12. “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 Munro
13. “…success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done.” – Myles Munroe
14. “We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.” – Myles Munroe
15. “Don’t ever make the mistake of telling God that you have nothing to offer. That simply is not true. God does not create any junk.” – Myles Munroe
16. “A person’s readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.” – Myles Munroe
17. “Desire is craving enough to sacrifice for” – Myles Munroe
18. “The picture that we have of ourselves — our self-concept — will always determine how we respond to life.” – Myles Munroe
19. “Your Job is where you get compensation for your activity. Your work is where you get fulfillment, because you love it so much.” – Myles Munroe
20. “Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. – Myles Munroe
21. “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
22. “God never demands anything that He does not provide for. Whatever God commands us to do,
He equips us to do.” – Myles Munroe
23. “The best thing in life to do is not to regret and try to change what happened, but to interpret it properly, maxmize and use it to serve other people. That’s what I want to do with my past.” – Myles Munroe
24. “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
25. “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
26. “Humility is simply believing and accepting what God says about us, and God says that we are anything but worthless.” – Myles Munroe
27. “The past is the past. Who or what we used to be doesn’t matter anymore. What matters is who and what we are now and who and what we can become in the future.” – Myles Munroe
28. “Don’t judge your success by the masses, and what they think of you. Judge yourself by what God told you to do.” – Myles Munroe
29. “Life outside your ideal environment will destroy your potential because a wrong environment
always means death.” – Myles Munroe
30. “We should always keep our behaviour or performance separate from our sense of self-worth.” – Myles Munroe
31. “when we share our sorrow, our sorrow is halved, and when we share our joy, our joy is doubled.” – Myles Munroe
32. “Proverbs 25:28 says, “Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who lacks self-control.” In other words, if we do not control our own lives from the inside, somebody else will control them from the outside.” – Myles Munroe
33. “No matter what type of leader you are or how widespread your influence, you face personal temptations, challenges, and stresses. And only a foundation of character will sustain you and your leadership.” – Myles Munroe
34. “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
35. “when experience is your best teacher, then progress is imprisoned” – Myles Munroe
36. “Poor people talk about money all the time, rich people talk about things, wealthy people talk about ideas.” – Myles Munroe
37. “Instead of waiting for someone to give you a job, create your own work.” – Myles Munroe
38. “Change is inevitable. Change is also the principle of life. – Myles Munroe
39. “Ecclesiastes 3:1-2: ‘To everything there is a season, …A time for every purpose under heaven.’…If you’re having a bad time right now, it cannot last. If you cannot find a job right now – That is only a season. If your business is going in the wrong direction – it’s a seasonal slide.” – Myles Munroe
40. “Never make a permanent decision in a temporary problem.” – Myles Munroe
41. “We should not persue money. We should persue vision, we should persue purpose; for ourselves, for our country, and for our communities.” – Myles Munroe
42. “Leaders are persuing a passion toward a purpose that gives them a sense of destiny.” – Myles Munroe
43. “consult your experience, but never let it rule you.” – Myles Munroe
44. “When facing severe challenges, your mind is normally at its sharpest.” – Myles Munroe
45. “We shouldn’t persue things, we should persue ideas.” – Myles Munroe
46. “You job is what they trained you to do, your work is what you were born to do.” – Myles Munroe
47. “If you become valuable to the world, the world will pay you to be yourself.” – Myles Munroe
48. “(The story of David and Goliath) The giant is trained – experienced with a sword – so he expected an experienced swordsman to come and fight him. But here comes a little boy, with equipment he’s never seen before (A sling and rock). We need people like that in the 21st century.” – Myles Munroe
49. “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
50. “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.” – Myles Munroe
51. “Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities.” – Myles Munroe
52. “Man is like an onion. His potential is exposed one layer at a time until all he is, is known by all.” – Myles Munroe
53. “Nothing changes until your mind changes.” – Myles Munroe
54. “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
55. “One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.” – Myles Munroe
56. “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.” – Myles Munroe
57. “You are not remembered for what you compromised for, but what you stood for.” – Myles Munroe
58. “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.” – Myles Munroe
59. “We shouldn’t pursue things, we should pursue ideas.” – Myles Munroe
60. “If you have hope for the future you have true riches; no matter how much you have in your account.” – Myles Munroe
61. “If you want to succeed, strike out on new paths. Don’t travel the worn paths of accepted success.” – Myles Munroe
62. “True success is not a project but a journey.” – Myles Munroe
63. “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
64. “Your job is what they trained you to do, your work is what you were born to do.” – Myles Munroe