Top 500 Joel Osteen Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.”

— Joel Osteen

252. “You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.”

— Joel Osteen

253. “You’re not really free until you’re free from trying to please everybody.”

— Joel Osteen

254. “If you will lie about the little things, before long you’ll lie about bigger things.”

— Joel Osteen

255. “Nobody owes me anything. I am not at a disadvantage. I am equipped, empowered, and anointed.”

— Joel Osteen

256. “Start announcing freedom from anything that’s holding you back. Freedom from addictions, freedom from loneliness, freedom from lack, freedom from struggle. You are prophesying your future. Your words are setting the direction for your life.”

— Joel Osteen

257. “God wants to use you in spite of your weaknesses. Of God chose to use perfect people only, He’d have no one to use.”

— Joel Osteen

258. “Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.”

— Joel Osteen

259. “You need to get ready because I have explosive blessings coming your way.”

— Joel Osteen

260. “Your enemies, your critics, the people that are trying to push you down-God can use them to push you up.”

— Joel Osteen

261. “You have to change on the inside before change will happen on the outside.”

— Joel Osteen

262. “Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.”

— Joel Osteen

263. “True success is when you reach back and bring somebody along with you.”

— Joel Osteen

264. “Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.”

— Joel Osteen

265. “You can have average talent, but when God breathes on your life, you will go further than people that have great talent. Don’t talk yourself out of it.”

— Joel Osteen

266. “I don’t have to figure out how God is going to solve my problem. I don’t have to understand how He’s going to bring it to pass. That’s His responsibility. My job is to simply believe that He will.”

— Joel Osteen

267. “The dream in your heart may be bigger than the environment in which you find yourself. Sometimes you have to get out of that environment in order to see your dream fulfilled.”

— Joel Osteen

268. “God doesn’t care what you’re not. He cares who you are. You are His, you come from the Master, and when He adds His extra to your ordinary and His super to your natural, nothing is impossible for you.”

— Joel Osteen

269. “When you come to a dark valley, a difficult season or a sickness, don’t worry about it, God will give you the grace and strength you need.”

— Joel Osteen

270. “I think we should enjoy our families and everyone that we love right now, each day.”

— Joel Osteen

271. “Keep doing the right. God is building character in you, and you are passing that test. Remember, the greater the struggle, the greater the reward.”

— Joel Osteen

272. “This is not the time to shrink back in fear. Move forward in faith. Get up every morning knowing you are gifted.”

— Joel Osteen

273. “Don’t just look for your miracle. Become someone else’s miracle.”

— Joel Osteen

274. “Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn’t work today.”

— Joel Osteen

275. “When you go through enough dark places, you don’t complain about little things. You don’t lose your joy because you got stuck in traffic; you don’t get offended because a coworker was rude to you. You’ve been through too much to let that sour you.”

— Joel Osteen

276. “I don’t have it in my heart to condemn people. I’m here to encourage them. I see myself more as a coach, as a motivator to help them experience the life God has for us.”

— Joel Osteen

277. “I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.”

— Joel Osteen

278. “There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.”

— Joel Osteen

279. “God has already lined up the right people for you, people that will inspire you, challenge you and motivate you. If you’ll let go of the wrong people, then the right people will show up.”

— Joel Osteen

280. “God didn’t create you to be average. You were created to excel You have everything.”

— Joel Osteen

281. “If they left you, you didn’t need them. If they walked away, they weren’t part of your DESTINY.”

— Joel Osteen

282. “You don’t know why God has put that person in your path. It’s not a coincidence. He’s strategically lined up every person, every detail and every step of your life. Now do your part – don’t miss an opportunity to do good for others.”

— Joel Osteen

283. “The marriage partner is not really the problem. No other person can ultimately make you happy. You must learn how to be happy within yourself.”

— Joel Osteen

284. “There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.”

— Joel Osteen

285. “Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!”

— Joel Osteen

286. “I don’t have all the answers.”

— Joel Osteen

287. “There is a winner in you. You were created to be successful, to accomplish your goals, to leave your mark on this generation. You have greatness in you. The key is to get it out.”

— Joel Osteen

288. “When you stir up the passion, your faith will allow God to do amazing things. If you want to remain passionate, you cannot let what once was a miracle become ordinary.”

— Joel Osteen

289. “It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.”

— Joel Osteen

290. “I’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.”

— Joel Osteen

291. “Do yourself a favor; don’t wear yourself out trying to please everybody. Your time is too valuable.”

— Joel Osteen

292. “If you want to know where you’ll be five years from now, listen to what you’re saying about yourself today.”

— Joel Osteen

293. “When you get up and say, “God, I want to thank you for being alive, I’ve got family, I’ve got my health,” you’re going to draw in more of the good things from God.”

— Joel Osteen

294. “You have a destiny to fulfill, something greater than you’ve ever even imagined. But if you’re going to become all you were created to be, you’ve got to take off the “average” label.”

— Joel Osteen

295. “Rewards await you if you stay steadfast in your faith.”

— Joel Osteen

296. “The moment you speak something out, you give birth to it. This is a spiritual principle, and it works whether what you are saying is good or bad, positive or negative.”

— Joel Osteen

297. “I think faith is incredible important because you will become overwhelmed with what’s happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.”

— Joel Osteen

298. “You have excellence on the inside. It’s who you are. Now do your part. Bring out your excellence!”

— Joel Osteen

299. “I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.”

— Joel Osteen

300. “Salvation and Christ’s love is a gift. You don’t earn it. You’ve got to receive that gift.”

— Joel Osteen