Joel Osteen Quotes

When there's pressure, I believe people will break under it or a diamond will be created.

It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique. And that's what I know for sure... I think.

In a crisis, you separate the men from the boys.

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy

In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we're made of.

Pressure can burst a pipe, or pressure can make a diamond.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

The world helps you to keep evolving and hope it's for better. You have to rise above all the tragedies in life. You have to grow, and if you stop growing, you are old.

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm.

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.

Diamonds are created through the pressures of earth and then have to go through a million dirty roads to get to the cutter who turns it into a beautiful massage. And that's like human beings. They go through a lot to be who they are in front of you.

We've all recognized the moment when the world has handed us a situation that is bigger than our youth can handle, and we have to grow up in a second. And when you do get to the other side, all it does is take us to this new level of existence that is more beautiful and more complex and, in some ways, more painful.

The hardest things in my life have made me who I am.

You grow from all those things you go through.

When I reflect on the losses I've experienced, I've come to believe that those experiences were transformative, that they shaped who I am.

You learn a lot of about people in failure.

Loss is part of life. If you don't have loss, you don't grow.

Being in the public eye, going through so much in life personal and my work, all of that put together it's either it will destroy you or make you a better person.