Myles Munroe Quotes

A wise man once said, 'Every one of us is given the gift of life, and what a strange gift it is. If it is preserved jealously and selfishly, it impoverishes and saddens. But if it is spent for others, it enriches and beautifies.' My fellow Americans: We can debate policies and programs, but in the end what separates the two parties in this election campaign is whether we use the gift of life for others or only ourselves.

I try to use the attention that I get to help and to serve, and that's really what I'd see as my work - to serve my community, serve the planet, serve my family. And I think a celebrity is someone who draws the attention on themselves, and then it kind of stops there.

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

Serve a cause greater than your self interest.

Service is key. And as I have more on my plate, and I have more ambitions and more goals and things I want for myself, I'm realizing more and more how important it is to be a servant.

Giving back has definitely kept me grounded. Stepping outside of yourself to serve a group or community of people who are in need in some facet has a way of doing that. I don't ever want to grow to a place where giving back becomes a foreign concept.

A happy life is a life for others.

I do everything I can on a daily basis just so I can have something to give back to the world.

The church is not here to meet our needs. We are the church here to meet the needs of the world.

The needs of others are ever present, and each of us can do something to help someone.... Unless we lose ourselves in service to others, there is little purpose to our own lives.

Life wants you to serve something more than yourself. When you serve something more than yourself, you are served. It's the most ironic thing in the world.

He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others.

One way to get very humble is to dedicate the work you're going to do to your community.

Something that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without a life of service.

Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.

My life nah important to me, but other people life important. My life is only important if me can help plenty people. If my life is just for me and my own security then me no want it. My life is for people. That's way me is.

When you feel compassion, you dethrone yourself from the centre of the world.

One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don't get into public service.

If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?

As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.

I run a bunch of charities and I say this line to people: 'I am somebody who has always been helped.' A little thing like that can make people believe it.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.

I feel like it's important to use this gift God gave me, my life and my career to do something to make the world a better place. It's an easy thing for me to do.

For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.