Joyce Meyer Quotes

“Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.”

“Really showing love requires more than just words.”

“The way anything is developed is through practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice and more practice.”

“Humble people ask for help.”

“I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.”

“Stop being tomented by everyone else's reaction to you.”

“Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.”

“Discipline enables you to think first and act second.”

“There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them.”

“Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.”

“If we are addicted to people's approval, we will always experience pain when that approval is withdrawn--as it always is.”

“Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all - not in any way.”

“One of the best ways to walk in love is to be a blessing to other people or simply to help them.”

“Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.”

“Character isn't developed when we get what we want. Character is developed when we don't get what we want.”

“If you don't love yourself, it's impossible for you to love others. You can't give away what you don't have.”

“Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.”

“My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.”

“So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.”

“Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.”

“Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.”

“I want to let you in on a little secret: I don't always feel like I'm a success. That's right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I've just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I'm trying to communicate with.”

“Stop looking to everyone else to make you happy and start finding ways that you can make other people happy.”

“You can't be pitiful AND powerful.”

“Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.”