Top 500 Joel Osteen Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.”

— Joel Osteen

452. “I think sometimes you just lose your focus, and I think that’s easy to do when you start getting more fame, more money, more power.”

— Joel Osteen

453. “What you keep before your eyes will affect you.”

— Joel Osteen

454. “I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.”

— Joel Osteen

455. “There is a place that God has specifically designed for you where all your needs will be supplied, where you’ll be happy and fulfilled, and where you’ll be using your gifts and talents to the full.”

— Joel Osteen

456. “I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‘There’s nothing good in my future’ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.”

— Joel Osteen

457. “If we will do our part and take a strong stand for our families, God will do His part. He’ll help us to have great marriages and great relationships with our parents and children.”

— Joel Osteen

458. “I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.”

— Joel Osteen

459. “Don’t simply settle for what your parents had. You can go further than that. You can do more, have more, be more.”

— Joel Osteen

460. “That’s what I feel like I’m called to do – to plant a seed of hope in people’s hearts.”

— Joel Osteen

461. “You see somebody down, that’s lonely, take them to lunch. Encourage them.”

— Joel Osteen

462. “Again I think my gift is bringing hope to everybody, and I don’t want someone to look at me and say, “I would listen to him, I like what he’s saying, but he’s this or that politically and that turns me off.””

— Joel Osteen

463. “On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.”

— Joel Osteen

464. “I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.”

— Joel Osteen

465. “I feel like when I stay focused on encouraging people, and giving them hope, and helping them live their everyday life, I think that’s where I can have the most impact.”

— Joel Osteen

466. “If you want to rear financial blessings, you have to sow financially.”

— Joel Osteen

467. “Don’t focus on the good old days, look forward towards the good new days.”

— Joel Osteen

468. “When you go through a loss, a disappointment or a bad break up, don’t expect to come out the same. Expect to come out better off than you were before.”

— Joel Osteen

469. “Listen carefully to the words and tone of voice you use with your spouse. Are you complaining all the time and telling her what she’s not doing right? Or are you doing like Solomon-blessing, encouraging, and uplifting that woman?”

— Joel Osteen

470. “You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.”

— Joel Osteen

471. “When you allow what someone says or does to upset you, you’re allowing them to control you.”

— Joel Osteen

472. “As long as you have breath, someone needs your talents.”

— Joel Osteen

473. “You need to take pride in what God has given you.”

— Joel Osteen

474. “You may have made a lot of wrong choices, but you’ve also made a lot of choices that were right. Focus on your good qualities. Focus on your victories. Get off the treadmill of guilt.”

— Joel Osteen

475. “So many people talk about themselves: “I’m unattractive, my mind’s so slow, and I can’t do this.” And you know what I tell them? “God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.””

— Joel Osteen

476. “You need to follow your own heart in light of God’s word and do what you feel is right and good for you.”

— Joel Osteen

477. “Your destiny is not cancelled because of a mistake, because of a failure. Get back up and go again.”

— Joel Osteen

478. “Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.”

— Joel Osteen

479. “Invite good things into your life. When you confess good things based on what God is saying, you’ll begin to see more favor!”

— Joel Osteen

480. “My friends and I had fun together, but I was more reserved, not at all the life of the party. I would just be the quiet one in the room.”

— Joel Osteen

481. “You can’t talk mediocrity and expect to have victory. You are prophesying your future. If you want a shift to occur, you’ve got to think positive.”

— Joel Osteen

482. “I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.”

— Joel Osteen

483. “We deal with people that are going through divorces and that are facing life-threatening illnesses, and I’m giving them hope. And to me, I don’t think there’s anything “lite” about that.”

— Joel Osteen

484. “You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.”

— Joel Osteen

485. “I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.”

— Joel Osteen

486. “When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.”

— Joel Osteen

487. “Certainly there are times in all of our lives when bad things happen, or things don’t turn out as we had hoped. But that’s when we we must a decision that we’re going to be happy inspite of our circumstances.”

— Joel Osteen

488. “When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.”

— Joel Osteen

489. “To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.”

— Joel Osteen

490. “When things gets difficult, and it seems like the intensity has been turned up, that’s a sign you are close to your victory.”

— Joel Osteen

491. “I want to be blessed so I can build orphanages. Blessed so I can build hospitals and do other things with our finances.”

— Joel Osteen

492. “People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.”

— Joel Osteen

493. “We don’t have to talk about faith and family at dinner-we just show it.”

— Joel Osteen

494. “My message is that God is a good God.”

— Joel Osteen

495. “Don’t use your faith to try to get rid of problems. Use your faith to remain calm in the midst of your problems.”

— Joel Osteen

496. “But I want to motivate. I wanna motivate every person to leave here to be a better father, a better husband, to break addictions to come up higher in their walk with the Lord.”

— Joel Osteen

497. “I encourage people in a lot of my messages that you’ve got to make the most of every day.”

— Joel Osteen

498. “In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.”

— Joel Osteen

499. “You may never get to that perfect world that you’re waiting for where everything’s going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.”

— Joel Osteen

500. “I’m not perfect, but I think that I’ve done good to stay focused on what I’m called to do.”

— Joel Osteen