T. D. Jakes Quotations | Page 2

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

There 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.

When God blesses you, don't let no devil in hell move you out of your place of blessing!

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

If you have the FAITH to believe it, you have the POWER to conceive it!

When we are placed in a set of circumstances where we have to take initiative and be creative, some of us find it hard to transition. Those people have been trained not to think but to obey orders. They are slaves to the training, unconsciously pledging allegiance to the average. Mentally they recite from the manual of mediocrity.

Excellence requires discomfort.

You cannot have a private relationship in a public arena. You must look to an inner circle of people who really know you. Don't expect to have that kind of intimate relationship with people who only know you publicly. Do not seek to be understood by the world.

What woman would not appreciate a God who becomes her attorney, assumes her case, requires no fee, and wins her the victory?

Sometimes we esteem others more important than ourselves. We always become the martyr. It is wonderful to be self-sacrificing, but watch out for self-disdain! If we don’t apply some of the medicine that we use on others to strengthen ourselves, our patients will be healed and we will be dying.

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

Arrogance always destroys opportunity

When you can't do nothing but pray-you've done a whole lot.

If only we could realize that our purpose is to be caretakers. We are responsible for leading our flock to the place where the grass is green, but it is up to them to eat! We cannot be responsible for how much they digest. We cannot make people mature.

You can teach what you know, but you can only reproduce what you are.

If you already understand your purpose, are you prepared to change your plans to match God’s will? If you aren’t, you can easily become bitter because things that used to work for you may no longer work. Be willing to transition at every stage and age of life. If your heart is open and you have an open mind, the blessings will flow.

When you were built to be tall, you will endanger your position if you lower your perspective

God's not going to promote you because you have a dream, He's going to promote you because you've maximized where you are so now you're ready to go to the next level.

Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside rather than submitting to the limitations of current dilemmas

God's grace is painted on the canvas of despair.

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.

Life's a university that'll teach you lessons, regardless of your desire to pass the “class” or not, there is always something else to learn

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

You will never understand pleasure without pain.

Many of us harbor hidden low self-esteem. We deem everything and everyone more important that ourselves and think that meeting their needs is more important than meeting our own. But if you run out of gas, everyone riding with you will be left stranded.

Prayer will get you out of a pinch, prayer will get you out of a crises, prayer will get you out of your dilemma, prayer will get you out of your trouble.

If you're gifted enough, nappy hair, gap teeth, acne face - I don't care what it is, greatness will shine through anything!

Know when your space is too small for you...and you have to birthed to the next level!

Every goal that you will ever pursue will require a plan of action. Whether you are pursuing your life’s destiny or striving to obtain a particular goal, you must be able to see things as you desire them to be.

a setback is a setup for a comeback

When you're living by instinct, then you will naturally enhance everything and everyone around you. In other words, success will come naturally! When both your intellect and instincts are aligned, then producing the fruits of your labors brings satisfaction beyond measure.

Don't come into the presence of God to impress Him with something He gave you!

Others can inspire you, but ultimately the only thing that empowers you is what lies within you and learning how to better utilize what you’ve been given.

The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come back, because caged lions don't mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.

When people can walk away from you: Let them walk.

Never make a permanent decision about a temporary situation.

The enemy doesn't care how many days you live as long as you don't live in the days you have.

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.

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.

Whenever you face obstacles, crises and dilemmas and your confidence is in your associates more than in God- it is a sign your faith is deteriorating.

I'll give you some symptoms of a sign that your faith is deteriorating-whenever you face all of your problems and you trust only your plans to get you out-it is a sign that your faith is deteriorating.

If you can disappoint yourself as much as you love yourself and you still manage to disappoint yourself then why are you shocked when other people that you love disappoint you.

No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!

The most wonderful thing in the world is somebody who knows who they are and knows where they're going and knows what they were created to do

You don't have to sin to be carnal. People who are carnal just means they make all their decisions based on their senses.

The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.

Besides, Jesus was a rich man. He had to have been, in order to have supported his disciples and their families during his ministry.

It's better to wait for something that respects you than to go in so low that it diminishes what you've worked for.

Faith must always pass the test of discouragement.

Church only benefits you when you participate in the presence of God.

Worship strengthens you. It gives you a sense of God's presence and ultimately His protection and provision.

When You Hold Onto Your History, You Do It At The Expense Of Your Destiny.

Either your troubles make you better, or they make you bitter. We must always examine what’s going on in our hearts.

When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.

We have a tendency to want the other person to be a finished product while we give ourselves the grace to evolve.

No matter how much talent you have in your mind and spirit, if your body is not able to function, you are not able to fulfill your destiny.

To be unforgiving is like to drink poison and wait for someone else to die!! Rev. TD Jakes (have I said how much I love ya!)

Worship, from the Latin word meaning "worth-ship", is where we express God's worth to us in our lives.

You can't have healing without sickness.

Baptism was to put a line of demarcation between your past sins when you are buried with Him by Baptism-you are burying your past sins-eradicating them-putting a line in the sand saying that old man is dead and he is no longer alive any more and I rise up to walk in the newness of life.

The greater the battle - the greater the spoils.

Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.

Somebody is n the hospital begging God for the opportunity u have right now. Step into your moment.

Your greatest failure will precede your greatest success.

You cannot be a Big person with a Small heart

The dream God gives you guarantees, no matter what it looks like now, when it’s all over, your dream will come to pass.

One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past.

It is enough to be responsible for ensuring that our people have the opportunity to graze in the rich grass of God's nutritious word. Beyond that, we must trust the word to take it's effect. It will work faster in some people than in others. the spiritual body grows and metabolizes food at different rates much like the natural body does.

Faith becomes a bridge between where I am and where I want to go- it is a substance.

Every major move in my life was done instinctively.

Contentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact.

You are no greater than what you believe.

There's a connectivity between your generation, my ministry and who I am as a person.

I think the thing that people do wrong today is that they pray for external validation.

I fully intend to preach the word of God to you until there's a difference between how you walk out of here and how you walked in here.

The thing that I've most enjoyed is what I'm learning.

Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain.

Greatness is contagious...You'll catch it if you get around it.

Even when things are getting worse instead of better - I believe God!

I came to serve notice on the devil- he is a liar!

As the old African adage says, 'everybody skin to me ain't kin to me'. So you can't exclusively make that the criteria of your job selection and say that it's right when it's black and discrimination when it's white.

Forgive others so that you may be forgiven.

You cannot have victory without conflict.

Worry worships the words of the enemy

It is possible for you to get a grip on the thing that used to have a grip on you. And instead of it controlling you- you are now controlling it.

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.

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.

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.

If you can learn to love the imperfect people in your family then it's possible that someone can learn to love a imperfect you.

Its not over, until the Lord says its over.

Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself

Set the goal to harvest what's in you rather than having a car, house or a relationship.

When you don’t become fixated on winning the prize or appearing successful, and instead pursue your passions, then you will discover the fulfillment that comes from living by instinct.

Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt.

Faith will get in the ditch with you, faith will go in the prison with you, faith will go into divorce court with you, faith will go in the hospital with you, faith will go in the nursing home with you.

Put the greatest emphasis on what's in you; your knowledge, your wisdom, your inner strength, your character, your tenacity and people will look through the box and always walk away with the product.

Blame unto others only as you would first blame yourself.

Nobody wants to stand behind a parked car. You got to always follow somebody who keeps it moving.

All over this nation, all over this world there are people going to church today and they say they are believers, but until you can take what you've been taught and bring it to the place you gave up - you will never be the radical believer that you need to be for the times in which we live.

You can wreck your future running from your past.