Joel Osteen Quotes

Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.

Obstacles are found everywhere, and in overcoming them we nourish ourselves.

Challenge serves beautifully to introduce you to your best - and most brilliant - self.

Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?

I like challenges and I don't believe in failure. I don't believe in regrets. I believe suffering, failure - all those concepts - are things that are absolutely necessary to make us the best people that we can be, the best at whatever we want to do.

Some of my greatest pleasures have come from finding ways to overcome obstacles.

Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist.

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

Life is a challenge. Realize that and work, every day, to rise up and meet it.

Sometimes, challenges and struggles are exactly what we need in our lives...May you welcome every effort, every struggle, and every challenge...May you open your wings and fly!

What more could you ask for in life than to be given an impossible challenge?

Every challenge is nothing more than a chance to make things better.

Life is about challenges and how we face up to them and the attitude we take into every day life so hopefully we'll be able to motivate people to do more with their life.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That's how you know you're still alive.

Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.

My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.

I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.