“Perhaps looking at the forensics of your past can catapult you forward in a way that merely dreaming can never attain!”
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T.D. Jakes
“Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people’s refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true.”
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T.D. Jakes
“If there is a tenacious burning desire in the pit of your stomach, you become very difficult to discourage.”
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T.D. Jakes
“You Can’t Tell Everybody One of the saddest realities we must face about life is that everybody is not going to be happy when we prosper. People haters can’t stand your dreaming of a better life, despise your happiness, turn their nose up at you because you take extra care in your speech and appearance. They get angry when you find a better job or a new love. They stop speaking to you when you give up negative behaviors.”
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T.D. Jakes
“told them that you have to earn the right to be heard. People won’t just follow you because you say so. They will only follow you when you have endured, developed, grown, and sometimes suffered.”
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T.D. Jakes
“Hardship can humble you, but it cannot break you unless you let it. Your instinct for survival will see you through if you’re attuned to its frequency. Instinct will find a temporary stopgap without ever taking its sights off your larger goals. There’s no greater way to hone your instincts than to overcome adversity. Successful leaders know that instincts transform adversity into opportunity.”
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T.D. Jakes
“Before you get to the place that is calling you, recognize whom you can talk to about your destiny and whom you can’t. Dream killers will”
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T.D. Jakes
“When you live your own dream, you don’t have time to be a hater.”
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T.D. Jakes
“both success and struggle are different kinds of trauma.”
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T.D. Jakes
“Jealousy is the manifestation of insecurity and dissatisfaction with one’s calling and self-worth.”
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T.D. Jakes
“What are you going to do with what you have been given?”
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T.D. Jakes
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
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T.D. Jakes
“It’s okay to be fearful, but don’t let the fear keep you from flying!”
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T.D. Jakes
“Things that are covered don’t heal well.”
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T.D. Jakes
“There is no shortcut to excellence.”
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T.D. Jakes