Joel Osteen Quotes

If I can tell my story, and help anybody else in the interim, then that's icing on the cake.

It's always amazing when a fan will say you've helped them through some kind of adversity.

The beautiful thing about encouragement is that anybody can do it.

I've been inspired by a shitload of people in my life so if there's ever anybody that I can inspire, to me that's a huge gift. To be able to turn that back around.

I don't think about wealth. I get one thing in my mind, "How can I help people...come on humans...do something, you know. Let's wake up. Man alive...you're half dead. Let's do some living".

Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great.

When you believe in people, you motivate them and release their potential.

Don’t be discouraged by the size of your network – inspire one person and you are doing good.

So often people tell me: you got me through this, you've really helped me. And I never realized that part of what I do is that I give people hope.

When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.

I hope to inspire people, influence people.

I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.

I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that's not in me. I want to lift people up.

I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.

The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.

Whenever you get to change somebody's life or watch it and see it happen, it's amazing.

I became a teacher because I wanted to make a difference in people's lives.

Sometimes people hear that you help somebody or you said something that really resonated with them that they really needed to hear. Sometimes people get motivated to go and do stuff. That makes me feel really good because I feel like I'm affecting people in a good way.

It's always great to see someone's life change for the better, and to be involved in something like that is really uplifting for me.

When somebody gives their testimony or tells their story, the next person can be motivated or inspired by it. That's all I'm trying to do.

It sounds so trite to say I make a difference, but I really feel, especially in a community college, I can make a difference.

It's amazing what one positive role model in your life can do in five minutes.

That always catches you by surprise, you know, the amount of inspiration, should you choose to, that you can give to people.