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Being successful doesn’t necessarily make you great. What makes you great is when you reach back and help somebody else become great.

Joel Osteen

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Joel Osteen
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: March 5
Minister
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Houston
Texas
Joel Scott Osteen
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You were created to make somebody else’s life better. Somebody needs your smile. They need your love, your encouragement & your gifts.
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I don't dislike anybody.
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You don't have to tell people what they're doing wrong. They already know. Your job is to love them.
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Smiling resets your mood.
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I've always been - you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me to be.
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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.
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There are a lot of decisions we pass up on because we think, You know what? That's just going to build - you know, maybe that's going to build me and not build the ministry and what I'm trying to do. So we pass up on a lot of opportunities.
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God knows your value He sees your potential. You may not understand everything you are going through right now. But hold your head up high, knowing that God is in control and he has a great plan and purpose for your life.
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Don’t use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe.
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People will try to label you not good enough, too slow, too old, too many mistakes. You can't stop negative comments or prevent negative labels, but you can choose to not let them hold you back.
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God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.
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We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God's talking to us all the time. He's talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it's the Holy Spirit talking to us.
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Every setback is a setup for a comeback!
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I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.
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God never said that we wouldn’t have unfair situations, that we wouldn’t experience loss. But He promised if we would stay in faith, He would restore everything that was stolen.
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Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, 'Hey, I did my religious duty.' That's fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you're talking to God. Even if it's in your thoughts.
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You're not RESPONSIBLE for somebody else's happiness. You're responsible for your own HAPPINESS.
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Do yourself a favor don’t wear yourself out trying to please everybody. Your time is too valuable.
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When u have this spirit of excellence, u do the right thing always :even if no one is watching you.
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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?
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