Myles Munroe Quotes

A willingness to drop your ego and let yourself look foolish. You almost have to enjoy looking vulnerable. You'd be surprised how many people don't want to do that.

If people are looking for someone who has never changed their mind and is unwilling to admit they make mistakes, that's not me.

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

I try not to have too much of an ego. I'll do anything.

I don't mind being wrong, and I don't mind changing my mind.

If you're not vulnerable, and you're too headstrong and clear about the path you want to take, it won't help you grow. Vulnerability doesn't have to be a negative thing. If you take the right spin on it, it can be extremely positive.

I'll never be too big for anything.

What you need is a fundamental humility - the belief that you can learn from anyone.

One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.

Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.

Seeking means admitting that you do not know. Once you have cleared your slate, truth can imprint itself upon it.

I wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it's feeble to change your mind once it's made up. That's a wrong idea, you know. Make up your mind about things, by all means - but if something happens to show that you are wrong, then it is feeble not to change your mind, Elizabeth. Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas.

Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.

You have to be quite grounded, and I don't know what that is. Sometimes, that means being vulnerable.

Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won't let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, 'Here I am. This is me.' I feel there's something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them.

I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota.

I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.

Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.