Joel Osteen Quotes

we can not prepare for defeat and expect to live a life in Victory.

Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option.

Hope is not a strategy.

I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.

A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Go make yourself a plan And be a shining light. Then make yourself a second plan, For neither will come right.

No one prepares to lose ... we prepare to win.

Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.

Success is predictable.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared for.

Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory.

When you plan and prepare carefully, you can legitimately expect to have success in your efforts. An optimistic, positive mind is far more likely to come up with creative solutions than a mind that dwells on setbacks and difficulties. Bottom line: expect success and you can achieve it!

Fail to plan, plan to fail.

When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.

When you stop planning and preparing . . . you stop winning.

I don't know secret to success, but I'm pretty sure the closest thing is preparation

Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Action with planning is the cause of all success.

Without knowledge and a workable plan, you are gambling, with little or no chance of success.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.