Joel Osteen Quotes

You can't lose confidence in yourself, or you've lost already. When you get knocked down, you've got to keep getting back up.

Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.

I suppose I could have sat back and pitied myself. For a time I wondered if I'd ever be able to go on to a stage and perform again. After a couple of weeks I began to feel I could fight my way back to health if I put my mind to it. I thought to myself: 'Pity never did anybody any good. Go on. Patsy, show 'em what you can do'

Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.

'Give up... it's time to quit,' I don't think I've ever really accepted those kinds of words in my life or vocabulary.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.

Accomplishment comes from making positive efforts, even in the face of negative circumstances.

Despondency is not a state of humility; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse; whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.

Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.

Never tell yourself ... I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too.

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.

Keep your morale high, in spite of setbacks. At the end you are bound to succeed.

Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

Battles are fought in our minds every day. When we begin to feel the battle is just too difficult and want to give up, we must choose to resist negative thoughts and be determined to rise above our problems. We must decide that we're not going to quit. When we're bombarded with doubts and fears, we must take a stand and say: "I'll never give up! God's on my side. He loves me, and He's helping me! I'm going to make it!"

The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.

Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

It may look like the difficulty is going to defeat you. But you need to keep telling yourself, "This sickness can't take my life." "This cancer can't defeat me." "No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny."

I will get stronger. I will return.

And you can win, though you face the worst, if you feel that you're going to do it.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

I've been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.