Joel Osteen Quotes

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind.

One moment you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud.

If you're in the game long enough, you're going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you'll be toast.

If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

The hour of capitalism’s greatest triumph is its greatest danger.

I always say, even in this industry that I'm in - I'm on a show today, but the show could get cancelled.

In a season, you're going to go through slumps.

The illusion when things are going your way is that it's gonna just keep going. But it never does.

Popularity is a bubble. It's a mountain: you can go up really hard but walk down really fast.

I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.

Unfortunately, when you're the king of the hill, there's really only one way to go, and that's down.

From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.

If you're at the top, then brace for the fall.

In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is

Predictability can lead to failure.

Ah, race of mortal men, How as a thing of nought I count ye, though ye live; For who is there of men That more of blessing knows, Than just a little while To seem to prosper well, And, having seemed, to fall?

We said [U.S] are going to be repercussions of the mistaken way of dealing with it, of treating the terrorism, but nobody expected 11th of September. So, you cannot expect. It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. It's an area where everything is on the brink of explosion. You have to expect everything.

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116

When the amount of change externally exceeds the amount of change internally, the end is in sight.

Sometimes you think the movie is good and BOOM! Sometimes you think it's no good. BAAM! The movie business is a big gamble. You never know.