Joel Osteen Quotes

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

Everyone has a right to their own opinion about me, and that's fine. I'm just going to keep being myself and living my life. That's all I can do.

What other people think of me is none of my business. One of the highest places you can get to is being independent of the good opinions of other people.

I've learned not to let people judge me in how I want to live my life. Every single woman is an individual, and there's no one path. You just have to take the path that you think is right for you.

I'm not jealous of anybody, because I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it. I'm not going to be like, 'Oh my God they have this, I want that.'

I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.

It's heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody . . . My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can, ... People may not agree with that . . . I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do.

She just wanted to be comfortable in her own skin...But she would not stop to seek others' approval. The notion that she should never seemed to enter her head. Her right to live as she pleased was not up for negotiation, even if it ran against the grain of the milieu at Huntingdon.

You just realize at the end of the day, everyone is going to have their opinion on your life, more and more so as you go along. As long as you're getting to work and be a part of it - still having fun, learn to just not sweat it so much and keep doing the things you love.

You're not really free until you're free from trying to please everybody.

I'm hesitant to judge people. My favorite saying is "you do you." But, hopefully, you don't have to seek external validation from others to feel good about yourself.

I don't have anything to prove ever, ever in my life. If I have something to prove, what does that mean for everyone else? And I think everyone should have that attitude.

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

I don't really put too much emphasis on what somebody else might think of it. Otherwise your putting limits on yourself.

I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

I was never the kind of person who cared much what people thought about me.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

I don't need a man in my life.

I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!

The thing that I like about being me is that everybody gets a different feeling from me.

I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

I want young people to know that they can belong - whatever your culture, your religion, your sexuality - that you can live life how you want to live it and feel comfortable how you are.