Joel Osteen Quotes

Assume that whatever situation you are facing at the moment is exactly the right situation you need to ultimately be successful. This situation has been sent to help you become better, to help you expand and grow.

You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

'That which does not kill me makes me stronger' is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution.

When you have bad moments, you have to improve. You have to become stronger to deal with it, and I believe I have become stronger.

If you let tragedies stop you along the way, then you're never going to grow as a person.

I kind of almost get enjoyment out of adversity in life.

Certainly there are times in all of our lives when bad things happen, or things don’t turn out as we had hoped. But that’s when we we must a decision that we’re going to be happy inspite of our circumstances.

You can make almost anything a learning or positive experience. I think I offer a good example of how to make the most out of what life gives you and how to keep moving on.

I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential.

Every negative is a positive. The bad things that happen to me, I somehow make them good. That means you can't do anything to hurt me.

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

A lot of people deal with things that are bad. Once you've been through something, you grow from it and you take a lot in. You can always turn it into something positive.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser and happier as a result.

Overcoming adversity not only makes you stronger, it makes you more hopeful.

I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts.

I think hard times either bring out the best in you or the worst, and I think I've luckily managed to bring out all the positives in myself.

I've had some ups and downs in my personal life, but I have overcame them.

That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

The good life is the best preparation for bad times.