T. D. Jakes Quotes

You're going to have highs and lows, but it's how you get through the lows.

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.

People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do.

What I learned for myself... is that no matter what the circumstances, people survive.

You don't have to be a scared person. I've had so many tragedies. I've managed to withstand things that you may think you cannot tolerate. But I have the strength.

One should be brave. It's life, there will be ups and downs. It's only when you are down, that you get the strength to get back up.

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.

Yes, I now that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks too. But we're gonna fool them.

It was definitely some tough moments throughout my life, but I kind of stayed focused and came through the other end of the tunnel.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there's always something beautiful that you can find.

We cannot always control everything that happens to us in this life, but we can control how we respond. Many struggles come as problems and pressures that sometimes cause pain. Others come as temptations, trials, and tribulations.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

'That which does not kill me makes me stronger' is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

In my life I had no other choice than to become a strong person.

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.