Myles Munroe Quotes

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

Your existence is evidence that this generation needs something that your life contains ~ Myles Munroe

Celebrity mentality sometimes misguides us to make wrong choices. That's why T.V screens sometimes lie to us! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

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

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

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

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

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

The mind is the laboratory where products, both fake and genuine are manufactured. People grow wild weeds, others grow flourishing flowers! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Most people die at age 25 and are buried at age 65. ~ Myles Munroe

Once you have the vision and the passion to make it happen, you will achieve your dreams. It is up to you to decide when to make it happen; attitudes guide you to answer that! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

God may not explain Himself, but He will reveal Himself. ~ 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

You can't lead if you don't know what you were made for. You can't know what you were made for if you don't ask the one who made you! Know your creator; know yourself! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

The leadership spirit comes with a spirit of leadership. ~ 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

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. ~ Myles Munroe

The world is so average, it doesn't take much to be a genius, just do a little extra ~ Myles Munroe

When you know every well what to do and how to do it, your attitude determines how well you will have it done! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

... fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline (2 Timothy 1:6-7). A ~ Myles Munroe

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

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

Most of us are not leaders today because, in our hearts we don't believe that is who we are. ~ Myles Munroe

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. ~ Myles Munroe

Leadership is not a raw gift given to a group of people. It is the product of any type of gift everyone one has. It therefore means, any kind of gift is a leadership gift! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

If we compete with ourselves and not with others, then it does not matter who is behind us or ahead of us; our goal is to become and achieve all we are capable of being and doing, and this becomes the measure of our satisfaction. ~ Myles Munroe

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

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

A principle is a truth that is established by God that can never be changed. ~ Myles Munroe

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

Deliverance is not the same as freedom. Deliverance is release from the oppressor, but freedom is deliverance from oppression. ~ Myles Munroe

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

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

When trying to communicate with each other, a husband and wife should be careful to make sure their voices and faces agree with their words. ~ Myles Munroe

You need to treat your finances as a resource God has provided to fulfill your vision, not a tool to fill your life with luxuries ~ Myles Munroe

Every person is born with a seed of greatness. ~ Myles Munroe

I encourage people at this time, do not put your faith in any preacher, in any human system, but put your faith and trust in the Living God. ~ Myles Munroe

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. ~ Myles Munroe

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

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

If you haven't found yourself yet, it's difficult to help someone to discover himself. False leaders make more false leaders! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

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

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

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

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

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

Your purpose can be fulfilled only during the time you are given on earth to accomplish it. ~ Myles Munroe

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. ~ Myles Munroe

Nobody is rewarded for occupying a position, but for becoming effective in the position occupied. If you occupy a position, you must have the weight of influence in order to matter! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders fail when they begin to fall in love with negative mindsets of other people! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

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

Headship is not rulership; it is leadership. As head, the man is to provide spiritual leadership and direction to the family. He is supposed to chart the course. His spiritual temperature should set the climate for his entire house. ~ 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

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

Attitude gives your work a good finishing beauty. You may be successful in what you do, but when you are not humble enough, nobody may get time to stop by to see what you have to show the world! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Failure of success is not race-related; it's not socioeconomics-related; it is really predictable, based on principles that are laid down by God the Creator by which we are supposed to function. If we find them and obey them, success becomes inevitable. That's why I was able to move from rats to 40,000 feet in the air in my own aircraft. ~ 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

The first and most important component in nation building is LAW. Law is the source of national Cohesion. ~ Myles Munroe

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

For everything that God desires to do in the earth, He enters into partnership with those to whom He has already given dominion. ~ 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

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

But remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you the ability to produce wealth (Deut. 8:18a). ~ Myles Munroe

God wants to supply your needs from a place you never expected, through people you never knew, in ways you never thought, but first you have to believe that it is possible. Once you understand that His ability to meet your needs is bigger than your job or your business, you will find that your source of life is bigger than the resources that you have been accumulating. ~ Myles Munroe

Within the overall context of loving his wife, a husband's first and primary role is to be the spiritual head and covering and teacher in the home. Through his words, lifestyle, and personal behavior the husband should teach the Word, the will, and ~ Myles Munroe

Sometimes it is difficult to different between leaders and misleaders. However, with the measurement of true service to mankind, the evidence is very clear! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

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. ~ 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

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

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. ~ Myles Munroe

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

The leader's job is to show the way. The bottom line is that you can't tell anything about the condition of the way if you've not traveled on it yourself! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

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

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

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change. ~ Myles Munroe

God's purpose is more important than our plans. ~ Myles Munroe

If you cling to an experience that cannot accommodate change, this can cause you to become a victim of that change. He who worships the past will remain there. ~ Myles Munroe

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

Remember that no matter how great a leader you become, you could lose everything that you've gained due to a lack of character. ~ Myles Munroe

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

Lasting change can occur only when it takes in the spirit of the mind. ~ Myles Munroe

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

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

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. ~ Myles Munroe

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

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

We were not designed to be dominated. ~ Myles Munroe

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

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