Joel Osteen Quotes

There are always going to be things you don’t like about yourself or reasons to compare yourself to others, but once you realize that you only get one you, it’s best to just love yourself.

I'm losing myself trying to compete with everyone else, instead of just being me.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

Don't you ever wish you were someone else. You were meant to be the way you are exactly. Don't you ever say you don't like the way you are. When you learn to love yourself, you're better off by far.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

You must always be yourself, and do things at your own pace. Someday, you'll catch up.

The greatest value comes from loving yourself for who you are. I've been teaching myself this for years, so I hope that by showing what I've learned, others can find the same freedom and joy I have.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

Don’t compare your path with anybody else’s. Your path is unique to you.

There is always one thing to be grateful for - that one is one's self and not somebody else.

Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.

Comparing yourself to others is an act of violence against your authentic self.

Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between low self-esteem and high self-esteem is the difference between passivity and action, between failure and success.

True self-love and social are the same.

I have to introduce the part of me that feels like a winner to the part of me convinced I’m a loser, and see if they can’t agree to exist somewhere closer to the middle.

Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.

You weren't created to be unhappy in order to keep everyone else happy. Run your own race.

I'm realizing, you don't need to change anything about yourself. This is who you are, and it's okay. That's daring.

I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.

And did I pass?" The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left the younger woman said, "You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.

Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.

The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.

Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.

From the very beginning you are being told to compare yourself with others. This is the greatest disease; it is like a cancer that goes on destroying your very soul because each individual is unique, and comparison is not possible. I am just myself and you are just yourself. There is nobody else in the world you can be compared with.

But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy girl with think, dark hair, He would have made me that way, but He didn't. Useful, then, might be to accept how I was made and embody myself fully therein.