Joel Osteen Quotes

You have to make it happen.

All I can control is what I do when I step on the floor.

When it gets down to it you just have to act.

Be a doer and not a critic.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

If you want to do things, do things.

It is always your next move.

If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you.

Don't think, just do.

Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Nine times out of 10, extenuating circumstances aside, I believe that people are where they are by some kind of choice on their part. You need to acknowledge that, 'Hey, I'm here because I steered my horse in this direction.'

You have to make your own destiny.

You just gotta do it, man. You can't count on the guy making the tackle in front of you.

'Better do it than wish it done,' is a phrase ingrained in my mind.

Be a doer, not a stewer.

If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

I believe you have to make things happen.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

So many young people say, 'I'm just going to see what happens.' It's so much more powerful to make things happen and have a plan.

If not me, who? And if not now, when?

Don't wait. If it's not right, move on.

I don't get into these long-winded heavy discussions about character - do we do this or that or what. At the end of the day, what you gotta do is just go out there and do it.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.