Quotes from T. D. Jakes

God gives you the resources for success. But it is up to you to recognize them and use them to their fullest.

Surround yourself with those who won't compete but will revel in your success and see your ascent as a reflection of their own possibilities.

If you have achieved any level of success, then pour it into someone else. Success is not success without a successor.

a setback is a setup for a comeback

Success is never an accident it's always on purpose.

I think many people have an illusion of success based on entering in at a level that's higher than their experiences.

Your greatest failure will precede your greatest success.

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

Thinking is the first step to a revolution in your life that is incredibly significant.

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 was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do.

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.

You can't be who you are going to be and who you used to be at the same time.

There may be challenges or crosses that may have delayed your goals temporarily, but now it's time to move forward.

A whole woman will always attract a whole man. And when they touch, they will fuse to create a whole marriage. Ultimately, when the time is right, they will produce whole children.

The right thing at the wrong time will lead to failure.

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.

My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked for Union Carbide and took the check I made from work to pay for the rent to keep the church open.

I'm having an amazing time teaching through the lives of people much like Jesus did.

If you don't find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you're teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.