JOEL OSTEEN, Become a Better You

If you associate with successful people, before long you will become successful. Their enthusiasm will be contagious and you will catch that vision. If you stay in an atmosphere of victory, before long you're going to have an image of victory.

JOEL OSTEEN, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.

JOEL OSTEEN, attributed, Accelerate to Glory

Get out of that negative environment and get into an atmosphere of victory, where people build you up rather than tear you down. Find a place where people will encourage you and challenge you to be the best you can be. Find a place where people inspire you to reach for new heights. Friend, you have to envision good things happening to you before they ever will.

JOEL OSTEEN, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

You can have success on the outside, but if you're bitter on the inside, it's going to spoil and taint every victory. You must deal with the inside first. You must get to the root of the problem; then you can really be happy. Then you can experience true, untainted, unalloyed victory in your life.

JOEL OSTEEN, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

If you have a vision of victory for your life, you can rise to a new level. But as long as you have your head down, with your gaze on the ground instead of on your possibilities, you run the risk of moving in the wrong direction and missing out.

JOEL OSTEEN, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

The first place we must win the victory is in our own minds. If you don't think you can be successful, then you never will be.

JOEL OSTEEN, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential