Joel Osteen Quotes

I live each day full of gratitude, and that's good for my children.

You live your life day by day and find ways to get through it. You grow up through things that are challenging and you find the joy. You realize there are so many people that have it much worse and remind yourself. I have been very blessed.

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.

So every single day, I found something to be grateful for and that's a powerful lesson.

I'm concentrating on the positive, on all the wonderful things I'm doing now.

No matter how I feel, I get up, dress up, and show up for life. When I do, the day always serves up more than I could have hoped for. Each day truly is a slice of heaven. Some days the slices are just smaller than others.

I will sit in the car on the way to a meeting and just smile. I really mean that. It helps you get through life. If you have nothing to say, smile. Look up at the sky and smile. Just be grateful.

I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift.

I try to live in a state of being grateful as much as possible. I'm not always successful.

...I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life!

It just depends on what you decide to have in your heart. That's what I've learned. That's where I am at this stage in my life is if we can fill ourselves with love and appreciation for, and be in a state of gratitude... Every event of your life you have an opportunity to be in a state of gratitude for it.

Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

Each day provides its own gifts.

I generally try and have great days, because I feel very lucky to be doing what I'm doing.

I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.

Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.

There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.

I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to persevere, overcome and have faith. I think those tough times make you a stronger person.

I try and stay positive; being negative isn't good for my personality. I don't just bring myself down, I bring everyone around me down. It's like a dark cloud, 'Uh oh, here we go,' and have to snap out of it.

Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them.

I just show up and try to find the joy in every situation.

I don't waste any time at all. I have no time at all for people who are being very negative or people who are very whiny or people who feel sorry for themselves. I tend to go to them and just say, you don't understand how incredible life is and how precious it is.