Joyce Meyer Quotes

I think a lot of people spend a lot of time talking about what they hate rather than what they love. I don't want to get trapped in that.

People who have great lives think and talk about what they love more than what they don't love. And people who are struggling, think and talk about what they don't love more than what they do love.

Seek happiness and you may or may not find it; seek grievances and you are guaranteed success.

It’s very seductive to focus on what you don’t like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do.

I think sometimes we seem to obsess on negativity.

I don't think the world focuses on the positive things enough.

I'm always fighting the cup-is-half-empty way of being, versus the cup-is-half-full. I'm always fighting the pessimistic versus the positive.

There's just as much positivity as there is negativity, but for some reason, people focus on the negative things. And I used to be that person, but I'm not that person anymore.

I don't talk about anything negative.

There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?

I don't focus on negativity, I focus on the good things.

I don't think about the negative in my life. I just think about the positives.

What annoys me most is it is so easy to focus on negatives all the time. All you hear is a lot of people - whether it is industry leaders or politicians - complaining about everything. I don't deny things are not always perfect, but the stage it gets is huge compared with the simple things that make people happy, like winning a football match.

I choose to focus on the positive.

I only take the positives, and I don't take the negatives.

You can get to where you want to be from wherever you are-but you must stop spending so much time noticing and talking about what you do not like about where you are.

Don't focus on the negative things that can happen, just think about the positive things.

Trade your expectations for appreciation and the world changes instantly.

I hate how many people think "glass half-empty" when their glass is really four-fifths full. I'm grateful when I have one drop in the glass because I know exactly what to do with it.

We can get excited by thinking about what all we have or can have, OR we can get discouraged by thinking about what all we don't have.

I always feel sorry for people who think more about a rainy day ahead than sunshine today.

What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.