Joyce Meyer Quotes

My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'

Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.

Beauty is about what's inside us, loving who we are and nurturing that. Outward beauty can really blossom from there.

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.

If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!

Don't let go of your strength or your beauty. It was given to you by God.

To me I seem to be constantly growing. I must respond to varying conditions, yet remain changeless within.

Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit.

I've found that there is always some beauty left-in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you. Look at these things, then you find yourself again, and God, and then you regain your balance. And whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-- the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside-- the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once. There is another sort of blow that comes from within-that you don't feel until it's too late to do anything about it, until you realize with finality that in some regard you will never be as good a man again.

Article Five: If you have no reason or ability to accomplish anything, then just practice the art of becoming.

And so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the dirt we disavow or hide or deny. It is the dirt of our lives—the depressions, the losses, the inequities, the failing grades in trigonometry, the e-mails sent in fear or hate or haste, the ways in which we encounter people different from us—that shape us, polish us to a heady sheen, make us in fact more beautiful, more elemental, more artful and lasting.

Like the lotus flower that is born out of mud, we must honor the darkest parts of ourselves and the most painful of our life’s experiences, because they are what allow us to birth our most beautiful self.

It is because my roots are so strong that I can fly.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

We’re all works in progress, honey. And believe me when I tell you that I’ve had to work harder than most.

We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.

If you grow yourself to become a successful person, in strength of character and mind, you will naturally be successful in anything and everything you do.

Every time we choose action over ease or labor over rest, we develop an increasing level of self-worth, self-respect and self-confidence. In the final analysis, it is how we feel about ourselves that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become in the process of doing that brings value into our lives. It is activity that converts human dreams into human reality, and that conversion from idea into actuality gives us a personal value that can come from no other source.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

It is a commitment to respect whatever life brings that we develop wholehearted determination to use discomfort as an opportunity for awakening, rather than trying to make it disappear.

June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.

Be seriously involved with growing, with your own development, and never fear. Be the kind of person who is naturally powerful, positive, ingenious, open, to the highest degree. Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality.

Don't let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.