Joel Osteen Quotes

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.

I don't teach kids to be No. 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be No. 1; that's not it. You don't have to be No. 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.

I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.

It has been my observation that the happiest of people, the vibrant doers of the world, are almost always those who are using - who are putting into play, calling upon, depending upon-the greatest number of their God-given talents and capabilities.

You should do as much stuff as you have the ability to do because it will help you find what you really want to do.

I feel better in my mind because I'm doing what God made me to do. He said, 'Go write books, Steve, and you'll be happy.' I'm happy now, and that has had an effect on my life and my relationship with my wife and kids and even my friends. I've always wanted to be a writer.

Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

Be the most wonderful expression of you that you're capable of.

We can drop the fundamental hope that there is a better "me" who one day will emerge. We can't just jump over ourselves as if we were not there.

Indeed, everybody wants to be a wow, But not everybody knows exactly how.

My goal is to help women to become the best version of themselves.

It is not enough to merely exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to live and support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good parent.' That's all very well. But you must do something more.

Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.

We are all equal in that we can all strive to become the best we are capable of becoming. We can always improve but we shouldn't compare ourselves to others. We get in trouble when we start trying to measure up to someone else.

Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.

Be very proud of what you do, and if you aren't then change it.

One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

Whatever you are made of, be the best of that.

If you concern yourself with your neighbor’s talents, you’ll neglect your own. But if you concern yourself with yours, you could inspire both!

The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.