Top 380 Donald Miller Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.”

— Donald Miller

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2. “When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”

— Donald Miller

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3. “Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: "Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us."”

— Donald Miller

4. “Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.”

— Donald Miller

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5. “The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.”

— Donald Miller

6. “When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.”

— Donald Miller

7. “All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.”

— Donald Miller

8. “Dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something is the hard thing. Living for something extends beyond fashion, glory, or recognition. We live for what we believe.”

— Donald Miller

9. “Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.”

— Donald Miller

10. “Your life is a blank page. You write on it.”

— Donald Miller

11. “And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can’t go back to being normal; you can’t go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.”

— Donald Miller

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12. “People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.”

— Donald Miller

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13. “She knows who she is. She just forgot for a little while.”

— Donald Miller

14. “If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life.”

— Donald Miller

15. “A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.”

— Donald Miller

16. “Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?”

— Donald Miller

17. “We don’t think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections.”

— Donald Miller

18. “There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.”

— Donald Miller

19. “Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas.”

— Donald Miller

20. “If you don’t feel free and be yourself, you can’t connect. Find people who accept your quirks. They’ll heal your soul.”

— Donald Miller

21. “You can’t tell a good story without conflict – the story can’t be beautiful or meaningful. We’re taught to run from conflict, and it’s robbing us of some really good stories.”

— Donald Miller

22. “Without a positive male role model in your life, it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.”

— Donald Miller

23. “We shouldn’t be afraid to embrace whimsy, that nagging idea that life could be magical; it could be special if we were only willing to take a few risks.”

— Donald Miller

24. “When we do what God wants us to do, we are blessed, we are spiritually healthy.”

— Donald Miller

25. “Great stories move through fear.”

— Donald Miller

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26. “No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it’s just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.”

— Donald Miller

27. “If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don’t have to be perfect and we don’t have to pretend to be perfect.”

— Donald Miller

28. “Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.”

— Donald Miller

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29. “Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.”

— Donald Miller

30. “A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.”

— Donald Miller

31. “It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.”

— Donald Miller

32. “The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.”

— Donald Miller

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33. “I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man’s mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God. I was into habit.”

— Donald Miller

34. “Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we’re all chasing success. We’ve confused one for the other.”

— Donald Miller

35. “There are two types of men in this world – one is looking for a woman to make his life complete and the other is looking for a woman to join his complete life.”

— Donald Miller

36. “Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.”

— Donald Miller

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37. “Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either.”

— Donald Miller

38. “We have to have positive male role models.”

— Donald Miller

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

— Donald Miller

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40. “If you aren’t telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.”

— Donald Miller

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41. “I think each of us can, through our writing, discover our super power.”

— Donald Miller

42. “Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen.”

— Donald Miller

43. “Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it’s being turned into a thousand songs.”

— Donald Miller

44. “Nothing is going to change in congo until you and i figure out what is wrong with the person inside the mirror.”

— Donald Miller

45. “Let probability and sample size do the heavy lifting.”

— Donald Miller

46. “To change the world you’ll need a pen.”

— Donald Miller

47. “I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.”

— Donald Miller

48. “Suffering ceases to be suffering when you have a redemptive perspective.”

— Donald Miller

49. “I think life is staggering and we’re just too used to it.”

— Donald Miller

50. “Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.”

— Donald Miller