Joyce Meyer Quotes

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

For me, when I go to bed at night, I am happy that I haven't hurt someone. And if I think I have, I will rectify it. I now refuse to give someone permission to make me feel bad about myself. They can't make me feel bad about myself if I don't allow it.

I don't let people affect me.

I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.

I do have moments when I feel insecure. I do have moments when I feel jealous, and that's normal. It's a very normal emotion. It's your action and your attitude and your reaction to that that is important.

Negative emotions will challenge your grit every step of the way. While it's impossible not to feel your emotions, it's completely under your power to manage them effectively and to keep yourself in a position of control. When you let your emotions overtake your ability to think clearly, it's easy to lose your resolve.

I learned early on to stay away from gossip magazines and reviews. That stuff just makes you unhappy, and I know actors that read everything that's written about them and they're miserable. You can choose what to let into your life.

People can be cruel, but that doesn't mean you have to take it home, wrap yourself up in it and wear it.

If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.

Every human being must have boundaries in order to have successful relationships or a successful performance in life.

That's just never been me - 'Oh, this is hurt; that's why I'm playing like this.' That's just not the type of person I am.

I tend to not wallow too much in sentiment if I can avoid it.

We can't determine our emotions, but we can choose our attitudes and actions.

I don't have a lot of shame. That doesn't mean I can't feel bad about the way someone reacts to me or about something I read about myself online. But I don't have a lot of guilt, no. I've always been this way. I'm missing a chip.

Don't let the good days get to your head, and don't let the bad days get to your heart.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

I can only control myself, my actions, my work ethic, and my attitude.

Control what you can control. I can control my emotions, my attitude, my effort every day.

What helps me when someone puts me down or aims to offend me is to not take what they say personally. I try my best to not internalize their comments.

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.

That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

My limits will be better marked. Both the limits I will set, and my own limits.

If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.