Joyce Meyer Quotes

“Don't mourn over your bad decisions. Just start overcoming them with good ones.”

“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.”

“Where the mind goes, the man follows.”

“Your body is the house you live in. If you destroy it...you have to leave!”

“I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let's face it - we all would like to be happy.”

“You never really know yourself until you see yourself under pressure.”

“The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.”

“There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking at the bright side of things.”

“Don’t let someone who has a bad attitude give it to you.”

“Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.”

“Much of everyday life is filled with opportunities to be distracted. Our possessions... entertainment... cares and anxieties... and even the passionate desire and pursuit of things, some good and not so good, can keep our minds and hearts caught up in a flurry of activity.”

“Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can't comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there's no life and love inside.”

“A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.”

“Maybe you don't just have one Goliath. Maybe you have his whole family!”

“I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.”

“Is your problem really your problem, or is it your attitude towards the problem that's your problem?”

“Most of us have a "Do Not Disturb" sign around our necks.”

“Sometimes when you are the closest to your breakthrough the pressure is the greatest. You have come too far to give up now!”

“I'm jealous. I'm mad. I feel bad. But one day, I woke up and I thought, you know what? This is wearing me out. And I'm not getting anywhere. So, I decided that even though I did not have a good beginning, I made a decision that I was going to let go of what lies behind and I was going to have a great finish.”

“We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.”

“Sometimes when you've had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you've already had.”

“Don't depend on other people as the source of your happiness or for approval.”

“Growth requires facing where you're at so you can go to the NEXT LEVEL”

“My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not.”

“Today we are going to talk about words. You know, words are containers for power. They carry creative or destructive power. They carry positive or negative power. We can choose our words and we should do it carefully.”