Joel Osteen Quotes

Remember, in the end, it isn't what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.

Most of the time, it's your thinking, not your talent, that holds you back.

Your only limitation is the one you set up in your own mind!

If you think you can't, why think

Many things we can't do are simply because we think we can't do them.

Belief in limits creates limited people

If you think you are beaten you are, if you think you dare not, you don't. If you like to win, but you think you can't, it is almost certain you won't.

Self-doubt does more to sabotage individual potential than all external limitations put together.

I've figured out the secret. Your mind is your power; you have to work with your mind and work with your own thoughts about your own life. If you spend so much time thinking, "This industry is male-dominated. It's sexist. It's this. It's that," then that's what the picture will always be. I remember when I was coming up, I didn't have those thoughts. My mom told me I could be whatever I wanted to be and I could be as bright of a star as I was meant to be. So, that's where I put all of my focus and my thought...into what I could do. And I carry that with me now.

We're our own worst enemy. You doubt yourself more than anybody else ever will. If you can get past that, you can be successful.

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.

The only thing holding us back is ourselves.

Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.

If you think something is impossible, then it certainly is... for you.

I want to be the best. The only thing holding me back is me.

My belief is that most of the limitations people have or face are self-imposed.

One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs.

Know that nothing can hinder you but yourself. If you believe you can, you can.

You will never rise above the image you have of yourself in your own mind.

Excuses are your lack of faith in your own power.

[H]uman beings...make a limit in their mind of what their potential is. They decide, "I've been told this," or "this is what society tells me," or they've been made to believe something. If every human being actually threw away those thoughts...the potential of human beings is great, it's huge, compared to what they actually think of themselves.

We are seldom as limited as we think we are.