Joel Osteen famous quotes

Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.
-- Joel Osteen

#Inspirational #People #Trying

The Bible talks about how God uses difficult situations to develop our character and get us stronger. The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends. But out of that darkness, out of that disappointment in my life, that's what God used to push me into another level of victory or another level of ministry that I never knew I had.
-- Joel Osteen

#Disappointment #Father #Character

There are people in your path just so you can be a blessing to them. Anytime you do good for others, you are sowing a seed for God to be good to you.
-- Joel Osteen

#Blessing #People #Sowing

So many people say, "I just don't have a good job, or my marriage is not where it's supposed to be." Really it's excuse after excuse to not be happy. To me it's a waste. I'm going to look at what's right and not what's wrong in my life. I'm alive, I'm healthy, and you know, a good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.
-- Joel Osteen

#Jobs #People #Healthy

Just because we're in a STRESSFUL situation doesn't mean that we have to get stressed out. You may be in the storm. The key is, don't let the storm get in YOU.
-- Joel Osteen

#Positive Thinking #Mean #Keys

God honors obedience, and He has distinct plans for us. I think the dreams that God puts in our hearts, we can fulfill. He's equipped us for that.
-- Joel Osteen

#Dream #Heart #Thinking

You may be in a tough time but that setback is simply a setup for a greater comeback.
-- Joel Osteen

#Tough Times #May #Comeback

I'm for everybody. You may not agree with me, but to me it's not my job to try to straighten everybody out. The Gospel is called the good news. My message is a message of hope, that's God's [message] for you. You can live a good life no matter what's happened to you.
-- Joel Osteen

#Jobs #Good Life #Trying

Next time you're tempted to be upset, frustrated, offended, remind yourself, it's a part of that ten percent of things in life that you can't control - but you can control how you respond.
-- Joel Osteen

#Upset #Frustrated #Next

I don't have it in my heart to condemn people. I'm here to encourage them. I see myself more as a coach, as a motivator to help them experience the life God has for us.
-- Joel Osteen

#Heart #People #Helping

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I'm not here to preach hate or push people down.
-- Joel Osteen

#Hate #Believe #Journey

I think that Bible principles will help anybody.
-- Joel Osteen

#Thinking #Principles #Helping

God would not have put a dream in your heart if He had not already given you everything you need to fulfill it.
-- Joel Osteen

#Inspirational #Dream #Heart

There's a lot of negative things trying to pull people down, and I think people respond when you tell them that hey, there are good things up ahead.
-- Joel Osteen

#Thinking #People #Trying

If you want to be happy, you have to be happy on purpose. When you wake up, you can't just wait to see what kind of day you'll have. You have to decide what kind of day you'll have.
-- Joel Osteen

#Positive Thinking #Waiting #Purpose

I'm not beating people over the head, and I'm saying that there are good things in store - you can make it in life. Most of the stuff that I minister [is] not real complicated deep things.
-- Joel Osteen

#Real #People #Stuff

At this very moment, God’s working behind the scenes in your life, arranging things in your favor. Stay in faith!
-- Joel Osteen

#Behind The Scenes #Favors #Moments

Back in Bible days, there were these famous schools of the prophets, but some of the ones Jesus chose didn't come through that route - and not to say that they weren't good, but I'm comfortable.
-- Joel Osteen

#Jesus #School #Prophet

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.
-- Joel Osteen

#Encouragement #Love Yourself #People

I've learned a simple principle: all I have to do is be the best 'me' that I can be. One day when I read the Scripture about David, that he fulfilled his purpose for his generation. I knew God spoke to me.
-- Joel Osteen

#Simple #One Day #Principles

Don't focus on what's wrong. Things may not be perfect, but be grateful for the opportunity to experience each day. Live each day like it could be your last.
-- Joel Osteen

#Grateful #Opportunity #Perfect

We never like to miss an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of our life. That's why I never like to have a service without giving an invitation or writing a book, without giving an invitation and presenting that truth. I believe this is the whole key to living your best life, living a fulfilled life or becoming a better you.
-- Joel Osteen

#Jesus #Believe #Book

We don't have to talk about faith and family at dinner-we just show it.
-- Joel Osteen

#Inspirational #Dinner #Faith And Family

Choose today to let the peace of Christ rule in your heart and have an attitude of gratitude toward the Lord. Even if you have things that are upsetting you, take a step of faith and begin to thank God for His goodness in your life. Thank Him for working behind the scenes on your behalf. As you do, you will walk forward into the life of blessing He has in store for you!
-- Joel Osteen

#Inspirational #Gratitude #Attitude

What you receive is directly connected to what you believe
-- Joel Osteen

#Believe #Connected

You have to change on the inside before change will happen on the outside.
-- Joel Osteen

God is a good God, and that he's on our side, and that he has great things in store and I believe that as we receive the forgiveness that Christ came and was born and died to give us, then we can live a great life.
-- Joel Osteen

#Believe #Giving #Sides

Quit worrying about how everything is going to turn out. Live one day at a time; better yet, make the most of this moment.
-- Joel Osteen

#Worry #One Day At A Time #Quitting

I'm trying to teach people how to live their everyday lives, and so I do focus on it, probably not as much as some people would like.
-- Joel Osteen

#People #Focus #Everyday

God loves to use ordinary people just like you and me, faults and all, to do extraordinary things.
-- Joel Osteen

#People #Ordinary #Use

You know what? I'm not going to beat myself up. I did the best I can do, and so I'm going to believe that - I'm going to believe good things about myself.
-- Joel Osteen

#Believe #Good Things #Beats

Wake up every morning with a thankful attitude. Expect something good to happen in your life today.
-- Joel Osteen

#Morning #Attitude #Wake Up

I see people - they won't be negative toward other people, but inside they're negative toward themselves, and I think that holds us back.
-- Joel Osteen

#Thinking #People #Negative

Keep in mind, just because you don’t know the answer doesn’t mean that one does not exist. You simply haven’t discovered it yet.
-- Joel Osteen

#Inspirational #Mean #Mind

I try to teach people that I believe God wants us to be positive toward ourselves, meaning that, you know what, I like the way I look, I like the way I sound, I'm happy with what I'm doing in my career - and not always be beating ourselves down.
-- Joel Osteen

#Believe #Careers #People

When you serve others, when you make somebody else’s life better, when you lift up people, when you help heal those that are hurting, not only are they being blessed, but you’re being blessed.
-- Joel Osteen

#Hurt #Blessed #People

So many people talk about themselves: "I'm unattractive, my mind's so slow, and I can't do this." And you know what I tell them? "God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you."
-- Joel Osteen

#Mistake #People #Mind

Quit worrying about how everything is going to turn out. Live one day at a time; better yet, make the most of this moment. It’s good to have a big – picture outlook, to set goals, to establish budgets and make plans, but if you’re always living in the future, you’re never really enjoying the present in the way God wants you to.
-- Joel Osteen

#Inspirational #Goal #Worry

I think the people already know what they're doing wrong, and I certainly believe in Hell. But to me, when I see thousands of people before me, it just doesn't come out of me to say, 'You guys are terrible, and you're going to Hell.' I'd rather say that God is a God of mercy. You've got to live an obedient life, but for every mistake you've made, there's mercy there, and I believe we can do better.
-- Joel Osteen

#Mistake #Believe #Thinking

When you're tempted to be upset, ask yourself 'Is this worth giving up my joy?'
-- Joel Osteen

#Giving Up #Joy #Upset

I'm not perfect, but I think that I've done good to stay focused on what I'm called to do.
-- Joel Osteen

#Thinking #Perfect #Done

Your job isn't to judge. - Your job isn't to figure out if someone deserves something or decide who is right or wrong. - Your job is to lift the fallen, restore the broken, and heal the hurting.
-- Joel Osteen

#Hurt #Jobs #Broken

Our whole message is it's easy to just keep preaching to the church and people that already come.
-- Joel Osteen

#People #Church #Messages

You are full of potential. You are overflowing with creativity. There's nothing in your heart that you cannot accomplish.
-- Joel Osteen

#Heart #Creativity #Happy Life

There are a lot of decisions we pass up on because we think, "You know what? That's just going to build - you know, maybe that's going to build me and not build the ministry and what I'm trying to do." So we pass up on a lot of opportunities.
-- Joel Osteen

#Opportunity #Thinking #Decision

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.
-- Joel Osteen

#Inspirational #Dream #Dreams Come True

We deal with people that are going through divorces and that are facing life-threatening illnesses, and I'm giving them hope. And to me, I don't think there's anything "lite" about that.
-- Joel Osteen

#Divorce #Thinking #People

Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it.
-- Joel Osteen

#Mind #Matter #Way

I realize that as quick as you go up, you can really come down that quick. And we've seen it happen with others.
-- Joel Osteen

#Realizing

Often, out of our greatest rejection comes our greatest direction.
-- Joel Osteen

#Inspiration #Rejection

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

#Inspirational #Past #Blame

I like to start my day off every morning, take the first half hour and just search my own heart, see if I'm on the right course, try to be honest with myself - am I doing this for the right reasons?
-- Joel Osteen

#Morning #Heart #Trying

No matter how long it's been, no matter how impossible it looks, if you'll stay in faith, your time is coming.
-- Joel Osteen

#Long #Looks #Matter

I feel like when I stay focused on encouraging people, and giving them hope, and helping them live their everyday life, I think that's where I can have the most impact.
-- Joel Osteen

#Thinking #Impact #People

The bible says no man can take your joy. That means no person can make you live with a negative attitude. No circumstance, no adversity can force you to live in despair. As Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of wheelchair-bound President Franklin D. Roosevelt, often said, ‘No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-- Joel Osteen

#Attitude #Mean #Adversity

You see somebody down, that's lonely, take them to lunch. Encourage them.
-- Joel Osteen

#Lonely #Lunch

The moment God put a dream in your heart, the moment the promise took root, God not only started it, but He set a completion date.
-- Joel Osteen

#Dream #Heart #Roots

There is a place that God has specifically designed for you where all your needs will be supplied, where you'll be happy and fulfilled, and where you'll be using your gifts and talents to the full.
-- Joel Osteen

#Needs #Gifts And Talents #Talent

God doesn't ask you to figure it all out. He only asks you to believe.
-- Joel Osteen

#Believe #Figures

Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
-- Joel Osteen

#Inspirational #Land #Identity

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.
-- Joel Osteen

#Blessed #Blessing #Focus

It may look like the difficulty is going to defeat you. But you need to keep telling yourself, "This sickness can't take my life." "This cancer can't defeat me." "No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny."
-- Joel Osteen

#Inspirational #Disappointment #Cancer

No matter how many mistakes you've made in the past, or what sort of difficulties you struggle with now, you are destined to live in victory.
-- Joel Osteen

#Mistake #Struggle #Happy Life

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors.
-- Joel Osteen

#Inspirational #Attitude #Grateful

When you allow what someone says or does to upset you, you're allowing them to control you.
-- Joel Osteen

#Life #Upset #Doe

If youre alive and breathing, you can still become everything God has created you to be.
-- Joel Osteen

#Breathing #Alive #Stills

Don't use your words to describe the situation. Use your words to change the situation.
-- Joel Osteen

#Advice #Use #Good Advice

If you’re controlled by your circumstances, life is going to be a roller coaster with ups and downs. God wants you to be stable, consistent, not moved by any of these things. When you face an adversity, when you hit a tough time, one of the best things you can do is simply stay calm. Keep your peace.
-- Joel Osteen

#Adversity #Tough Times #Stay Calm

It doesn't matter who likes you or doesn't like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.
-- Joel Osteen

#Matter #Likes #Like You

We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.
-- Joel Osteen

#Easter #Christ #Sinner

You cannot wait until everything becomes better before you decide to have a good attitude. You have to be the best you can be right where you are.
-- Joel Osteen

#Attitude #Waiting #Being The Best

You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.
-- Joel Osteen

#Inspirational #Positive #Moving On

Too often we make the mistake of remembering what we should forget-our hurts, failures and disappointments -and we forget what we should remember-our victories, accomplishments and the times we have made it through.
-- Joel Osteen

#Hurt #Disappointment #Mistake

It's easy to see the negative, but every person has something great about them. Develop a habit of looking for the good.
-- Joel Osteen

#Negative #Easy #Habit

Quit questioning God and start trusting Him!
-- Joel Osteen

#God #Religion #Quitting

Sometimes we focus on the mess or the broken dream, but in all the mess God sees greatness. He knows how to take your troubles and turn them into trophies, how to take the test and make it your testimony.
-- Joel Osteen

#Dream #Greatness #Broken

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way'... Keep moving forward.
-- Joel Osteen

#Inspirational #Motivational #Moving

You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. You were created to be victorious.
-- Joel Osteen

#Guilty #Defeated #Ashamed

If you don't have the gift of a loving supportive family, be that gift for someone else. It doesn't have to be a relative, just someone you know who is alone or hurting over the holiday.
-- Joel Osteen

#Hurt #Holiday #Supportive

Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.
-- Joel Osteen

#Inspirational #God #Fear

God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.
-- Joel Osteen

#Inspirational #Believe #Healthy

God's way is better than your way. His plan is bigger than your plan. His dream for your life is more rewarding, more fulfilling, better than you've ever dreamed of. Now stay open and let God do it His way.
-- Joel Osteen

#Letting Go #Dream #Way

When God puts something in your heart and deep down you know it’s a destiny moment, don’t wait for ten confirmations. Do what God is asking you to do now.
-- Joel Osteen

#Heart #Destiny #Waiting

Dare to believe SOMETHING AMAZING is going to happen in your life. When you believe, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.
-- Joel Osteen

#Believe #Dare

Don't be so shortsighted that if it doesn't happen right now, you're not going to be happy. You are sowing seeds that will reap a great harvest for generations to come.
-- Joel Osteen

#Sowing #Generations #Harvest

Fear and faith have something in common. They both ask us to believe in something we cannot see.
-- Joel Osteen

#Life #Believe #Common

God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.
-- Joel Osteen

#Positive #God #Mistake

God wants you to have a good life, a life filled with love, joy, peace, and fulfillment. That doesn’t mean it will always be easy, but it does mean that it will always be good.
-- Joel Osteen

#Inspirational #Good Life #Mean

You can be happy where you are.
-- Joel Osteen

#Life #Happiness #Where You Are

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.
-- Joel Osteen

#Being Thankful #Looks #May

Don’t use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe.
-- Joel Osteen

#Believe #Worry #Energy

You need to associate with people who inspire you, people that challenge you to raise higher, people that make you better. Don't waste your valuable time with people that are not adding to your growth. Your destiny is too important.
-- Joel Osteen

#Destiny #People #Challenges

Your future starts today. Don’t go through life looking in the rearview mirror. Your life is filled with possibility.
-- Joel Osteen

#Mirrors #Today #Life Is

Be a people builder. Look for opportunities to encourage others to bring out the best in them.
-- Joel Osteen

#Opportunity #People #Looks

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.
-- Joel Osteen

#Inspirational #Dream #Knocked Down

You can’t talk mediocrity and expect to have victory. You are prophesying your future. If you want a shift to occur, you’ve got to think positive.
-- Joel Osteen

#Thinking #Victory #Mediocrity

The power to see change in your life can be found in the words you speak. You have the power to set the destiny for your life by what comes out of your mouth.
-- Joel Osteen

#Destiny #Mouths #Speak

Start announcing freedom from anything that’s holding you back. Freedom from addictions, freedom from loneliness, freedom from lack, freedom from struggle. You are prophesying your future. Your words are setting the direction for your life.
-- Joel Osteen

#Loneliness #Struggle #Addiction

Don't grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.
-- Joel Osteen

#Accepting #Grows

If you give, you will be blessed.
-- Joel Osteen

#Blessed #Giving #Being Blessed