A Quote by Myles Munroe

You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.

Myles Munroe

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Myles Munroe
Bahamian - Priest
April 20, 1954 - November 9, 2014

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. And most people are concerned about growing old rather than being effective.

Myles Munroe

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

How long we live is much more important than how well we live!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's not how long you live, but how you live that's important. Therefore, don't make your life just livable, make it memorable.

Tony Robbins

How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.

S. Jay Olshansky

At what age did I start to think that where I was going was more important than where I already was? When was it that I began to believe that the most important thing about what I was doing was getting it over with? Knowing how to live is not something we have to teach children. Knowing how to live is something we have to be careful not to take away from them.

Colin Beavan

We have to live with ambiguity. We have to give ourselves over to it. The question is: How? How are we going to live in a universe where important questions will always go unanswered?

John Green

The important consideration is not how long we can live but how well we can learn the lesson of life, and discharge our duties and obligations to God and to one another.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends.

Sara Blakely

Self-censorship has become a part of me. I think because we live in a place where community is very important, family is very important, you feel the weight of how people look at you. Even though I might seem very modern and very liberated, I still have a lot of issues to deal with. I'm scared of how people look at me.

Nadine Labaki

It is important to know that what I do is not artistic. I am just a film-maker. I live how I live and I do what I do, which is recording moments of my life as I move ahead. And I do it because I am compelled to. Necessity, not artistry, is the true line you can follow in my life and work.

Jonas Mekas

The America I do want to live in, is seeing how people respond to the victims of Hurricane Harvey. People of all races, all colors, all religions. You don't care what a person looks like, what their beliefs are - I'm helping them, because they are my fellow brother, or because they need my help. That's the America I want to live in. I don't want to live in Charlottesville, where you hate somebody because of the way that they choose to live their life. That's not a place where I want to live.

Anquan Boldin

The abundance of our lives is not determined by how long we live, but how well we live. Christ makes abundant life possible if we choose to live it now.

Barbara Brown Taylor

It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?

Mignon McLaughlin

I can proudly say that I had no scandal throughout my career. And there was no serious injury worries because of what I was taught how to live off the pitch. It was very important.