Joel Osteen Quotes

Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.

Anxiety is your creativity turned into a weapon that you use to beat yourself up. And this is because anxiety is mostly storytelling - repeating poisonous stories that you've inherited from others. It feeds on your fear.

We all have dark shadows in our self that come out every now and then.

We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas.

I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.

My biggest enemy for the longest time was my head. When I first became successful, it made me anxious because I was overthinking everything, and you hear so many 'fail' stories.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.

When you are mad at yourself, you are mad at everybody.

I criticise myself an awful lot. I do worry to the point that I don't think it's very healthy. I'm always picking my flaws. It's a terrible anxiety I have. I wish I could pretend nothing fazes me, but it does.

Mostly the problems when I was down were caused by myself. There were times when I was not responsible enough or decisive enough.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

The problem is you tend to look back and identify mistakes, and as a consequence of feeling terrible about mistakes you say you bungled this so bad, let's get out of here.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find any excuses or anything.

I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

When I do things that aren't very good, I'm worse as an actor. I don't know what I pick up - but it's something not very nice.

I'm a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that's never healthy.

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

I've learned how my own perfectionism can cripple me.

I love playing women, and I think that this is a throughline to a lot of the characters I've played - they all have this aspect of being wronged. And I think, a lot of the time, the characters are actually wronged by themselves, and they find someone else to blame it on.