Joel Osteen Quotes

As cheesy and cornball as it sounds, life does get better - if you want it to.

The first step is to fill your life with positive faith that will help you through anything. The second step is to start where you are.

I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.

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.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

When you're in a situation, you can complain about it, you can feel sorry for yourself, you can do a lot of things. But how are you gonna make the situation better?

Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be.

I think every day you wake up, and you do the best you can do that day.

All I can control is myself and just keep having a positive attitude.

Keep your life in a positive perspective. We are not defined by our pasts

When things go wrong or don't turn out the way you pictured them in your head, you just have to go with the best intentions defense. I have a lot of good intentions.

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.

What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.

Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. God has given me a gift - the gift of life - and it's amazing that I live each day.

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

How do you come back? It's one step at a time. I'm optimistic because I don't know what else to be.

We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

Do the best you can with yourself and hope for the best.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.

To me, it's always been a challenge to look for the light: to look for those spaces in your heart where there is hope and faith and try to embrace that rather than crush it. I've spent so many years trying to crush those feelings of hope, and I certainly succeeded for quite a while.