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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.

T. D. Jakes

You don’t know how much you’ve grown- until trouble comes back for an encore.
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Encores Grown People Trouble
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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Insecure Need Poison
You shouldn’t shoot at every opportunity that passes by.
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Opportunity Paas Shoot
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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Education Morning Teacher
I started my ministry when I was 19, I was pastoring at 22 and I got married when I was 24, so I was building at such a young age and that fight, that dream and tenacity is still in me.
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Age Dream Fight Marry
Eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do.
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Bird Eagle Inspirational
So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God’s sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.
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Done Purpose Way
The greater the battle – the greater the spoils.
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Battle Greater Spoil
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.
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Color Country Excellence People
We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it’s absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
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Forgiveness Strong Thinking
I think the thing that people do wrong today is that they pray for external validation.
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People Think Validation
If you have the capacity to be more than one thing , do everything that’s inside of you.
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Inspirational Life Positive
I know whatever God means for me to have He’ll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don’t need it.
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Give God Mean Sweat Understand
Too many people want the appearance of winning rather than the practices and hard work that create a true champion.
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Hard Practice Win Work
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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Important Opportunity Thinking
You can’t have healing without sickness.
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Heal Patience Positive Sickness

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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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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