I was looking for excellence in any color or gender it comes in. Some of my top people are African American but not all of them.
T. D. JAKESThere is a higher power, a higher influence, a God who rules and reigns and controls circumstances and situations that are beyond your area and realm of authority.
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I’m not particularly political. I’m not particularly denominational. I’m not worried about any of that.
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Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward.
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The traditional churches are having to transition into new methodologies and new ways of reaching people and they are starting to understand that and looking for ways they can increase their relevance to the contemporary society.
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I think the thing that people do wrong today is that they pray for external validation.
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I think it’s important that when you’re bringing something to the table that you’re sure has value, that you don’t diminish yourself just so that you can have an opportunity.
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The greater the battle – the greater the spoils.
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If you have achieved any level of success, then pour it into someone else. Success is not success without a successor.
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Too many people want the appearance of winning rather than the practices and hard work that create a true champion.
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The enemy doesn’t care how many days you live as long as you don’t live in the days you have.
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We should still pray. We have no other authority but to pray.
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If you have the capacity to be more than one thing , do everything that’s inside of you.
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Success is never an accident it’s always on purpose.
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There is nothing I’m any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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The world is a university and everyone in it is a teacher. Make sure when you wake up in the morning you go to school.
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I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.
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