Quotes from Bishop TD Jakes

Friends, loved ones, and even enemies influence us, but that doesn't mean their comments are relevant to your destiny.

Fear teaches you to be cautious, careful, and conscientious. It also forces you to be creative, compassionate, and calculating.

We need instead to find people who are in sync with our beat and form a more perfect union with those who hear the same rhythm! It is time for us to find the thing we were created to do, the people we were meant to affect, and the power that comes from alignment with purpose.

soul survivor," someone who's willing to open up and examine the pain in order to lance the wound and perforate the power of the past.

Accept the process. Your blessing is already ready. It's already done. God is getting you ready for the blessing, preparing you for your destiny.

Success is not success without a successor.

my parents' ideals are good ones, and I support them to the highest. But my parents could only promote us to the levels to which they themselves had been exposed.

Greatness inspires greatness. Creativity inspires creativity. When you align yourself with people who inspire you and help draw out the best in you, you find your best self.

The road that gives you fulfillment, purpose, and joy as it takes you to Destiny is always peppered with jealous, envious, and angry people whose venomous darts are aimed squarely in your direction as you travel.

eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do.

It's the nights that I cried myself to sleep and my tears crawled across the bridge of my nose that God most often used to develop me into the person I am today.

Your hindrance? Trying to build your dream without the Dreammaker.