Joel Osteen Quotes

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

I'm not insecure. I've been through way too much f**king sh*t to be insecure. I've got huge balls. But I've been humbled. That makes you grateful for every day you have.

I've become a pretty tough cookie after having a divorce. I think that I've persevered through a lot of talk.

I think there are lot more lows in an athletes career than the highs, but you've got to be bale to take them on the chin.

When I find myself whining, and I'm like, 'God, it's wet,' there will always be one guy who never got into the heat tent, who didn't get past the coffee, and he's still there, and this guy is smiling. You know, I gotta get over myself.

Football is not always easy; you need to navigate through some adversity.

I try to see the lightness of life, and that comes from having a hard time growing up.

No matter what is going on in your life today, remember, it is only preparation. People come and go; situations rise and fall; it's all preparation for better things. You must stretch, reach, grow into your goodness. Without the preparation we receive through adversity, disappointment, confusion, or pain, we could not appreciate the goodness when it arrives.

To me, faith is being thankful when things in life are going well and also being thankful when they are not. Its often through our most difficult times when faith lifts us up and gives us the courage and the strength to work even harder to accomplish a new goal or do something we never thought we could.

Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.

Without dark clouds in our lives, we would never know the joy of sunshine. We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain.

Nietzsche famously said "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." But what he failed to stress is that it almost kills you.

Don't give up. You're going to get kicked in the teeth. A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success.

A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.

My whole life has been spent with people who have taken every knock in the world. No advantages. Yet they greet you with a big smile, they give you what they have, and they keep coming back. They are the fighters.

You're always going to face criticism, you're always going to face challenges, but those things are there to make you stronger and more committed.

He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

The message I'm trying to say is that I'm tough because of life experience.

It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip.

I seen the worst of the worst. I deserve every blessing I receive I'm from the dirt.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

You can and you must expect suffering.

Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise.