T. D. Jakes Quotes

The Eagle, he was lord above

Flutter like a hummingbird, Dive like an eagle, Ain't no bird that's my equal. - Twilight

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.

Every great man is unique.

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

Everybody wants to be great at something.

Great hopes make great men.

We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

For Athens alone of her contemporaries is found when tested to be greater than her reputation, and alone gives no occasion to her assailants to blush at the antagonist by whom they have been worsted, or to her subjects to question her title by merit to rule. Rather, the admiration of the present and succeeding ages will be ours.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talent.

It is not by his faults, but by his excellences, that we measure a great man.

I am a Hawk!

He’s the best man in this country.

You give a good leader very little and he will succeed; you give mediocrity a great deal and he will fail.

The people who are No. 1 are No. 1 for a reason.

Good material is good material.

We all want to be at the top level.

Every time he steps on the floor, LeBron has to establish that he's the best. Every year is an opportunity for him to raise his level to the best of the best.

I am always loath to assign goalkeepers too much importance, but you have to make an exception for the greats.

I don't go for average.

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.