Joel Osteen Quotes

You may not be where you want to be, but you can look back and be thankful you're not where you used to be.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life's not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

Jesus was saying that you can't have a larger life with restricted attitudes.

You're not really free until you're free from trying to please everybody.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you're criticizing God.

Check your spiritual birth certificate, you were made in the mighty image of God.

God has already lined up the right people for you, people that will inspire you, challenge you and motivate you. If you’ll let go of the wrong people, then the right people will show up.

I struggled for a long time with survivin', and no matter what, you keep finding something to fight for.

Life is not too short... we just wait too long to begin it.

Just because you’ve come to a dead end, it’s not time to give up. Find a different route and keep pressing forward.

If we will do our part and take a strong stand for our families, God will do His part. He'll help us to have great marriages and great relationships with our parents and children.

Quit worrying about what other people think and just be who God made you to be. If you will run your race, God will take care of your critics.

Before you leave the house, you need to make up your mind that you’re going to stay positive and enjoy the day no matter what comes your way. You have to decide ahead of time.

When you smile and project an aura of warmth, kindness, and friendliness, you will attract warms, kindness, and friendliness. Happy people will be drawn to you.

We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God's talking to us all the time. He's talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it's the Holy Spirit talking to us.

John Bunyan, author of the classic book the Pilgrim’s Progress, said “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who cannot pay you back.” Make a decision that you will live to give. Be on the lookout each day for somebody you can bless. Don’t’ live for yourself; learn to give yourself away, and your life will make a difference.

A victor's mentality becomes a victor's reality.

Your time is too valuable, your destiny is too great, and your future is too bright to waste a single moment. Be a now person.

I believe here's what the Bible teaches and from the Christian faith this is what I believe.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won't receive the good things God has in store.

Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.

You may be sitting around waiting for God to change your circumstances. Then you’re going to be happy, then your’re going to have a good attitude, then you’re going to give God praise. But God is waiting on you to get up on the inside. When you do your part, He’ll begin to change things and work supernaturally in your life.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

No matter what you’ve been through, no matter what others might have thought about you...you are who God says you are. You are talented, you are a success, and you are an overcomer!

Many times, we miss out on God's best because we give up too soon. We don't realize how close we are to victory.

When u have this spirit of excellence, u do the right thing always :even if no one is watching you.

The facts may tell you one thing. But, God is not limited by the facts. Choose faith in spite of the facts.

If you truly want to become a better you, it is imperative that you learn to feel good about yourself.

When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments you, then compliment yourself. It's not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It's up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside.

Be sensitive to the needs of those around you. Live as a healer. Lift the fallen, restore the broken, and encourage the discouraged.

You may be at a crossroads in your life. You may have issues to deal with; people you need to forgive. You can go one of the two ways. You can ignore what you now know to be true and keep burying that bitterness in your life, pushing it deeper and allowing it to poison and contaminate you and those around you. Or you can make a much better choice by getting it out in the open and asking God to help you to totally forgive and let it all go.

Buying a share of a good business is better than buying a share of a bad business. One way to do this is to purchase a business that can invest its own money at high rates of return rather than purchasing a business that can only invest at lower ones. In other words, businesses that earn a high return on capital are better than businesses that earn a low return on capital.

So many people are looking at what's wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what's right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

The more you talk about negative things in your life, the more you call them in. Speak victory not defeat.

I'm a reverend and a pastor. A pastor of the church. I go by usually pastor.

Don’t simply settle for what your parents had. You can go further than that. You can do more, have more, be more.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I'm going to be my best right now. That's what faith is all about.

If you will lie about the little things, before long you’ll lie about bigger things.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they're all welcome, because to me, church is a place you're supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

Don’t allow negative people to steal your joy. When you lose your joy, you lose your strength.

But I want to motivate. I wanna motivate every person to leave here to be a better father, a better husband, to break addictions to come up higher in their walk with the Lord.

Don't make excuses, don't blame the past. The rest of your life can be the best of your life!

Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be.

Be careful with whom you associate, especially when you feel emotionally vulnerable, because negative people can steal the dream right out of your heart.

I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

You weren't created to be unhappy in order to keep everyone else happy. Run your own race.

God knows the dreams and desires in your heart; in fact, He gave them to you. He will order your steps and take you where you need to be.

Sometimes you have to put your own dreams on hold temporarily so you can help release a dream in somebody else. What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you.