Joyce Meyer Quotes

I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward.

In life, you're always going to have obstacles put in your path and I am a prime example of from when I was a little girl to where I am now, you control your own destiny.

When I look back, I only do so to see what I've done in my past - my gold medals and the Championships that I've won. Really, I just look to the future and hopefully winning even more.

The best way to create spectacular results in the most important areas of your life is through daily practice

Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.

I've reached the stage of my life where learning is so important to me. I go through the past enough when I play my old songs on stage. And I don't mind doing that. But I want to think about the future.

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

We will not allow the past to drag us down and stop us from moving ahead. We understand where we should move.

I'm never going back to the past. It is like when I am driving - I never like to do those routes that take you backwards and make you go the long way. I always like to do the shortcuts and go forward.

Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.

I let my [past] life in peripherally, because I'm interested in what's over there; I want to keep going forward.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.

If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.

It's all about where you're going, no matter where you've been.

To move foward, you have to leave the past behind

Life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

I'm not trying to recapture anything. It's really about moving forward. I don't have much reverence for what I've done in the past.

It's not where you start but where you finish that counts.

It is time to stop looking outside yourself for the answers to why you haven't created the life and results you want, for it is you who creates the quality of life you lead and the results you produce. You-no one else! To achieve major success in life-to achieve those things that are most important to you-you must assume 100% responsibility for your life. Nothing less will do.

I don't want to look back-I want to keep looking ahead. I'd hate for my defining moment to be my past.

Throughout my athletic career, the overall goal was always to be a better athlete than I was at the moment – whether next week, next month or next year. The improvement was the goal. The medal was simply the ultimate reward for achieving that goal.

As exciting, difficult, and memorable as our past can be, there comes a time when we have to get on with living.

Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.