Joel Osteen Quotes

Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Life is a movie, pick your own role, Climb your own ladder or you dig your own hole.

I could live a normal life. My motivation is only to take on new challenges.

You all have the potential to be what you wanna be.

I was very anxious that Stephen should have every opportunity to fulfil himself.

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

Others can inspire you, but ultimately the only thing that empowers you is what lies within you and learning how to better utilize what you’ve been given.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.

You can be whoever you want to be, you just have to want it bad enough.

Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me'.

Have your own life before you become somebody's wife.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

What counts is knowing who you want to be and asking for it.

The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.

You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.

First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

You can believe in Fung Shui if you want, but ultimately people control their own fate. The most important thing is to improve yourself and give it your best. Then many things previously thought to be impossible will become possible.

Don't shrink to meet the expectations of others, grow to become the person you want to be.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

I like people that define their own values. I am much more interested in somebody who has their own definition of what they value, their own definition of what success is, their own definition of what love is.

I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.