Myles Munroe Quotes

In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.

Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.

I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.

Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.

Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.

Your spikes have gone floppy.

Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.

Richard Nixon will always go down as a failure because of one stupid, moral - and that goes back to that last chapter, on principles.

Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God’s voice.

Boredom and fear keep us working and obeying the laws.

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.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.

Fire truck with back end on fire drives really fast in circles.

If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek. How we apply a principle will vary greatly and will be determined by our unique strengths, talents, and creativity, but, ultimately, success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with the principles to which the success is tied.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.

I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle.

It is proper for every one to consider, in the case of all men, that he who has not been a servant cannot become a praiseworthy master; and it is meet that we should plume ourselves rather on acting the part of a servant properly than that of the master, first, towards the laws, (for in this way we are servants of the gods), and next, towards our elders.

Everything went great right up to the explosion.

"One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them. We here are not children, Mr. Gurgeh." Hamin waved the pipestem round the tables of people. "Rules and laws exist only because we take pleasure in doing what they forbid, but as long as most of the people obey such proscriptions most of the time, they have done their job; blind obedience would imply we are - ha!" - Hamin chuckled and pointed at the drone with the pipe - "no more than robots!"

We acquire a testimony of the principles of the gospel by obediently trying to live them.

Form follows function straight to hell.

Utopian movements produce dystopias.

In the end we must have people to match our principles, not the reverse.

To get salvation we must not only do some things, but everything which God has commanded...The object with me is to obey and teach others to obey God in just what he tells us to do. It mattereth not whether the principle is popular or unpopular; I will always maintain a true principle even if I stand alone in it.

Most things don't work like they are supposed to work.