Joel Osteen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
-
You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
-
Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
-
I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
-
I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.
-
I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
-
Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
-
This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.
-
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
-
Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
-
'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.
-
Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
-
I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
-
I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
-
I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
-
There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.
-
By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.
-
Look at Michelle Pfeiffer: My God, she's 50 years old, but she is still so sexy. If I were into women, I would be totally into her.
-
Will Smith is the most successful money-making movie star on planet Earth, in terms of just how many people have gone to see his films, so Will is a guy who gets movies made.
-
If you allow spirit to have dominion in your heart you will have dominion in your life. That changes thinking. That IS the miracle. That I'm not just a child of the body, I'm a child of the universe and in the universe I am programmed for greatness, and the fact that I don't have money in my bank account now doesn't mean I'm any less programmed for greatness. I was programmed for greatness just like the acorn is programmed to be an oak tree.
-
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
-
I'm young, but I've been doing this a long time... There's obviously a lot of hard work that goes into it. It's a hard town. There's a lot of talent here. It's all about timing, too. I just feel like I finally found the right town and the right song.
-
I remember that one time Carl Sagan was giving a talk, and he spelled out, in a kind of withering succession, these great theories of demotion that science has dealt us, all of the ways in which science is telling us we are not who we would like to believe we are. At the end of it, a young man came up to him and he said: "What do you give us in return? Now that you've taken everything from us? What meaning is left, if everything that I've been taught since I was a child turns out to be untrue?" Carl looked at him and said, Do something meaningful.
-
Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.
