Myles Munroe Quotes

Refuse to be average.

It is so easy to be average. It takes a little something to be special. Why be around average?

I'm not trying to be average.

All I knew is that I NEVER wanted to be AVERAGE.

Be special. Be anything but mediocre.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

Ain't no man can avoid being average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

My kids stand out at competitions. They're products of me. And you can't come to Beyond Belief and have a flamboyant teacher like me and be basic.

I don't want to be special.

And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?

If everyone is exceptional, nobody is exceptional.

Don’t tolerate any form of average. Don’t accept Dis-excellence. Don’t stand for mediocre. If you’re going to settle, then please settle for the absolute best.

There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity.

You can't win by being more average than average.

Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.

The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal.

People like me, LB, the truly great ones ... we are always alone.

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.

Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.

If something isn't special, then it's ordinary.

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.