Joel Osteen Quotes

Your words can permanently influence a life.

Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.

To change your world, you must change your words. It's the rudder (James 3:4-5) of your life.

All big changes of the world come from words.

Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?

Words are powerful.

If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

Words have the power to change us.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives; we carry these words in our head.

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

I have found that there are moments when someone uses language that sears itself into the head [of the listener]. Those are the moments I look for.

Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power.

Words can be used as a bomb or balm.

Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.

Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.

Our thoughts create our reality-not instantly, necessarily, as in "Poof! There it is" - but eventually. Where we put our focus - our inner and outer vision - is the direction we tend to go. That's our desire, our intention.

Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Words of the world are the life of the world.