642 Quotes by Donald Miller

It wasn’t necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.

In every line of copy we write, we’re either serving the customer’s story or descending into confusion; we’re either making music or making noise.

Most of us are waiting. We’re waiting for something interesting to happen. And I think we’re going to wait forever if we don’t do something more interesting with our lives.

The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won’t make a story meaningful, it won’t make a life meaningful either.

The strongest character in a story isn’t the hero, it’s the guide.

To change the world you’ll need a pen.

Sometimes the story we’re telling the world isn’t half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.

The reality is people are impressed with all kinds of things: intelligence, power, money, charm, talent, and so on. But the ones we tend to stay in love with are, in the long run, the ones who do a decent job loving us back.

I took William Zinsser’s advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.