Joel Osteen Quotes

We're never gonna move forward if we can't let go of things, especially things that don't happen to people today.

We have a choice. We can live in the past and be miserable and unhappy, or we can pick ourselves up and move ahead in life. When we choose to focus forward, we can find the energy and ability to remove any obstacles that may appear to be hindering our smooth progression. If you take stock of yourself and find you may be spending time frequently reliving unhappy experiences of the past, make the decision to rid yourself of the ties that bind you to a former way of life.

Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back

Learning from our mistakes is critical for improving, but even I don't have patience for ranking my regrets. Regret is a negative emotion that inhibits the optimism required to take on new challenges. You risk living in an alternative universe, where if only you had done this or that differently, things would be better. That's a poor substitute for making your actual life better, or improving the lives of others. Regret briefly, analyze and understand, and then move on, improving the only life you have.

Getting to the next level always requires ending something, leaving it behind, and moving on. Growth demands that we move on. Without the ability to end things, people stay stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all that their talents and abilities should afford them.

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

Let God work in you, give the work to God, and have peace. Don't worry if He works through your nature or above your nature, because both are His, nature and grace.

The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.

What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams and goals to a power that's greater than other people and greater than myself.

Nevertheless, the only way we can move from where we are now to where we would like to be is to accept where we are now.

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

God will always bring the right people into your life, but you have to let the wrong people walk away.

I really believe that our past can really hold us back from growth, so the best thing that we can do is MOVE ON and NOT DWELL.

To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward.

I try to incorporate faith every day, to not remind myself of past failures, to learn how to forgive and to trust the future.

God has already lined up the right people for you, people that will inspire you, challenge you and motivate you. If you’ll let go of the wrong people, then the right people will show up.

I don't have time for self-pity. I don't see the point in dwelling on the past.

You can't live in the past and say, 'if only.' You have to pick up and move along and make the world better.

I have no one at my side except God and His angels. I pray to God that He will turn my enemies into pillars of salt.

You can't be looking into the past too much about what you could have done; it is about making things right and learning from that experience and taking it into the next game.

I've always been taught that life is a series of chapters, and it's all about moving forward and not carrying around baggage.

I believe that God will provide in his own way.

I've tried to plan for my future in the past and it doesn't always work out the way I want it to, so leave it all up to the man upstairs.

You can't go on living in past and having regrets. Its better people have a positive influence on other people's lives than worry about themselves.

I put everything in the hands of God. He takes care of us and helps us. If he wants me to play in the World Cup, he'll protect me.