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. JAKESSometimes 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.
More T. D. Jakes Quotes
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There is nothing I’m any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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Eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do.
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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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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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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 dream God gives you guarantees, no matter what it looks like now, when it’s all over, your dream will come to pass.
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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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We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it’s absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
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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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If you have the capacity to be more than one thing , do everything that’s inside of you.
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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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Success is never an accident it’s always on purpose.
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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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You shouldn’t shoot at every opportunity that passes by.
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