Top 100 Munroe Quotes
#1. For Arthur Munroe was dead. And on what remained of his chewed and gouged head there was no longer a face.
H.P. Lovecraft
#2. This, Mrs Munroe, is the scent of intoxication and desire. The perfume of seduction.
Kathleen Tessaro
#3. It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.
Randall Munroe
#4. The past is dead except for the life you give it
Myles Munroe
#5. 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
#6. Thin Burning Light Gun
If the car found life, it could try to use this gun to learn about it, but the life might not be alive when it was done.
Randall Munroe
#7. God's purpose is more important than our plans.
Myles Munroe
#8. 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
#9. It's safer to do nothing and know why you doing it, than to do something and don't know why you do it.
Myles Munroe
#10. The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.
Myles Munroe
#11. Telescopes and bathyscapes and sonar probes of Scottish lakes, Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse explained with abstract phase-space maps, some x-ray slides, a music score, Minard's Napoleonic war: the most exciting new frontier is charting what's already here.
Randall Munroe
#12. Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work.
Myles Munroe
#13. Q. Is it possible to build a jetpack using downward-firing machine guns? - Rob B A. I WAS SORT OF surprised to find that the answer was yes! But to really do it right, you'll want to talk to the Russians.
Randall Munroe
#14. Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.
Myles Munroe
#15. 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
#16. A magnitude 15 earthquake would involve the release of almost 1032 joules of energy, which is roughly the gravitational binding energy of the Earth. To put it another way, the Death Star caused a magnitude 15 earthquake on Alderaan.
Randall Munroe
#18. Vision is a conception that is inspired by God in the hearts of Human
Myles Munroe
#19. We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.
Myles Munroe
#20. Of the 28 people killed by lightning in the US in 2012, 13 were standing under or near trees.
Randall Munroe
#21. You become a leader when you decide to be an original and not a copy.
Myles Munroe
#22. Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction, and you will not have to worry about your feet.
Myles Munroe
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. Your plane would fly pretty well, except it would be on fire the whole time, and then it would stop flying, and then stop being a plane.
Randall Munroe
#26. When you discover your gift and authority, that gift attracts people. When people come to you, they are not really coming to you for you but for the gift and the vision that you are serving the humanity of your generation with.
Myles Munroe
#27. You came into this world pregnant with unlimited potential.
Myles Munroe
#28. I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles - normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.
Randall Munroe
#29. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him." No human being is going to be truly satisfied with life until he or she loves God.
Myles Munroe
#30. Illegitimi non carborundum --don't let the bastards grind you down
Sadie Munroe
#31. You are meant to be going somewhere, to be headed to a destination. The poorest person in the world is a person without a dream
Myles Munroe
#32. God did not create woman from man's head, that he should command her, nor from his feet, that she should be his slave, but rather from his side, that she should be near his heart.
Myles Munroe
#33. It's funny because I consider myself a musical scavenger. What that means to me is that I usually avoid feeding on the fresh meat. I kinda go for the meat that's kinda been forgot for a while.
Colin Munroe
#34. If 'other people have experiences incorrectly' is annoying to you, think how unbearable it must be to have a condescending stranger tell you they hate the way you're experiencing your life at just the moment you've found something you want to remember.
Randall Munroe
#35. A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them.
Randall Munroe
#36. Success is not a pursuit ... but the result of obedience to the Divien and Natural laws of Life established by the Creator
Myles Munroe
#37. Maybe civilization will collapse, we'll all succumb to disease and famine, and the last of us will be eaten by cats. Maybe we'll all be killed by nanobots hours after you read this sentence. There's no way to know.
Randall Munroe
#38. What Is Prayer? Prayer is man giving God the legal right and permission to interfere in earth's affairs.
Myles Munroe
#39. Your future is not ahead of you, it's trapped within you
Myles Munroe
#40. The most common genetic disorder caused by inbreeding is spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). SMA causes the death of the cells in the spinal cord, and is often fatal or severely disabling.
Randall Munroe
#41. Leaders are not worried about what they can't do; they know themselves very well and focus on what they can do. Think this way if you are willing to lead!
Israelmore Ayivor
#43. The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness.
Myles Munroe
#44. 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
#45. The shortest distance to leadership is service.
Myles Munroe
#46. There's a big difference between guiding and controlling.
Colin Munroe
#47. True leadership is an attitude that naturally inspires and motivates others, and it comes from an internalized discovery about yourself.
Myles Munroe
#48. The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I've ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I've spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.
Randall Munroe
#49. 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
#50. If we divide up the world's land area evenly, there's enough room for each of us to have a little over 2 hectares each, with the nearest person 77 meters away.
Randall Munroe
#51. There is no limit to what the Lord can do in and with and through any individual or any married couple who surrender themselves and their resources completely to His will and His way.
Myles Munroe
#52. The reason why principles are so important is because principles make life predictable.
Myles Munroe
#53. It's weird how I am constantly surprised by the passage of time when it's literally the most predictable thing in the Universe.
Randall Munroe
#54. Circumstances and crises are God's tools to move you into your purpose and the maximizing of your potential.
Myles Munroe
#55. Plumes of hot meat and bubbles of trapped gases like methane - along with the air from the lungs of the deceased moles - would periodically rise through the mole crust and erupt volcanically from the surface, a geyser of death blasting mole bodies free of the planet.
Randall Munroe
#56. The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.
Randall Munroe
#58. Don't die old, die empty. That's the goal of life. Go to the cemetery and disappoint the graveyard.
Myles Munroe
#59. Child from a parent who self-fertilized would be like a clone of the parent with severe genetic damage. The parent would have all the genes the child would, but the child wouldn't have all the genes
Randall Munroe
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. Problem Boats
We keep extra boats stuck to these doors for people to use if there's a problem that makes them not want to be in space anymore, but no one will come get them.
Randall Munroe
#63. Loving money at the expense of others is an abuse of power to get wealth.
Myles Munroe
#65. Radio is less important than it used to be. Kids are not just hip-hop kids, just punk kids, just pop kids, just whatever kids. Everyone is mixing and matching on their playlists.
Colin Munroe
#66. This means the last few years of hard-drive production - which, thanks to increasing size, represents the majority of global storage capacity - would just about fill an oil tanker. So, by that measure, the Internet is smaller than an oil tanker.
Randall Munroe
#67. Leader discover themselves through a continuous fellowship and relationship with their sources of their life and wisdom. Self-discovery is the key to true leadership!
Israelmore Ayivor
#68. So Yoda sounds like our best bet as an energy source. But with world electricity consumption pushing 2 terawatts, it would take a hundred million Yodas to meet our demands. All things considered, switching to Yoda power probably isn't worth the trouble - though it would definitely be green.
Randall Munroe
#69. The ISS moves so quickly that if you fired a rifle bullet from one end of a football field,7 the International Space Station could cross the length of the field before the bullet traveled 10 yards.8
Randall Munroe
#70. Your value in life is determined by the problems you solve through your gift.
Myles Munroe
#71. I remember hearing about when U2 first came out and came to America and the gay community was their biggest following. And they were totally surprised, but they were like, that's cool. And for me it's the same thing.
Colin Munroe
#72. How someone else perceives and understands us depends only 7 percent on what we say, 38 percent on how we say it, and 55 percent on what we are doing when we say it.
Myles Munroe
#73. Trees make babies by dropping tiny wooden tree eggs on the ground.
Randall Munroe
#74. We need to stop focusing on people leaving earth and focus on, like Jesus said, the Kingdom of God is the yeast. Yeast invades dough.
Myles Munroe
#75. How many houses are burned down in the United States every year? What would be the easiest way to increase that number by a significant amount (say, at least 15%)?
Randall Munroe
#76. The thing about the Internet is that you can write something ... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
Randall Munroe
#77. It makes me happy that an arm of the US government has, in some official capacity, issued an opinion on the subject of firing nuclear missiles at hurricanes.
Randall Munroe
#78. All societies establish laws that become norms. Those norms create the environment that incubates society. So, when you implement the laws of God in society, they produce a culture of heaven.
Myles Munroe
#79. We are products of our culture and interpret the world through our mental conditioning.
Myles Munroe
#80. Most of us are not leaders today because, in our hearts we don't believe that is who we are.
Myles Munroe
#81. 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
#82. The husband provides direction; the wife, maintenance.
Myles Munroe
#83. If you liked it, then you should have moved a mass inside its Roche limit.
Randall Munroe
#84. The worst mistake a leader can make is to mentor no one, choose no successor and leave no legacy.
Myles Munroe
#85. Great leaders have no need for reputation. Reputation is what you are in public. Character is who you are in private.
Myles Munroe
#86. Your purpose can be fulfilled only during the time you are given on earth to accomplish it.
Myles Munroe
#87. Humility is simply believing and accepting what God says about us, and God says that we are anything but worthless.
Myles Munroe
#88. When people are tired of erotica and paranormal, my books will be waiting to entertain and give readers a little something to thing about. And hopefully some hope and a bit of wisdom.
T.A. Munroe
#89. You can do it even if everyone says you can't while your mind says you can. You cannot do it if your mind says you can't while everyone says you can!
Israelmore Ayivor
#90. If we are focusing on our needs, the relationship is in trouble.
Myles Munroe
#91. I go to goth clubs dressed as a frat guy so I can stand around and look terribly uncomfortable. At frat parties I do the same thing, but the other way around.
Myles Munroe
#92. We are not to be so concerned about who approves or disapproves of us, but remember that God's approval is what counts. Those whom God approves are approved indeed.
Myles Munroe
#93. If you have hope for the future you have true riches; no matter how much you have in your account
Myles Munroe
#94. 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
#95. Could you boil tea if you just stirred it hard enough? No. The first problem is power. The amount of power in question, 700 watts, is about a horsepower, so if you want to boil tea in two minutes, you'll need at least one horse to stir it hard enough.
Randall Munroe
#96. 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
#97. The greatest challenge of Leadership maintaining personal conviction in a globalized world.
Myles Munroe
#98. Leaders think differently about themselves, and this distinguishes them from followers.
Myles Munroe
#99. If you don't attempt things, you don't attract God.
Myles Munroe
#100. Q. This may be a bit gruesome, but ... if someone's DNA suddenly vanished, how long would that person last?
Randall Munroe
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