Joyce Meyer Quotes

Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all.

It is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.

I want the world to see, you can have a million stones thrown at you and you can still be positive.

Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.

Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.

It’s not the struggles that define you; it’s how you overcome them.

On some nights, he has nowhere to sleep, on others he suffers from insomnia. "That's just how it is," thinks the warrior. "I was the one who chose to walk this path."

One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic.

When you get pushed down, you pick yourself up and move on. I've never been a victim.

The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage.

Franklin's illness...gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest of all lessons - infinite patience and never ending persistence.

If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome.

In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.

I've become a pretty tough cookie after having a divorce. I think that I've persevered through a lot of talk.

Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.

You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.

We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.

The mountain remains unmoved at its seeming defeat by the mist.

Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.

First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.

I’m the only fire that can live in the rain

And you can win, though you face the worst, if you feel that you're going to do it.

All great undertakings are achieved through mighty obstacles. Keep up the deepest mental poise. Take not even the slightest notice of what puerile creatures may be saying against you.

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.