T. D. Jakes Quotes

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

Success is just around the corner, but I don't want to rush into anything.

Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.

Everything comes to him who waits -- if he waits till it comes.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Things don't have to come to you in your youth. It's fine for them to come to you when you get older. That's a motto in my household.

I'll get mine in a few years, when I get up there and when the time comes.

For he who can wait, everything comes in time.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

Life teaches you that you need to make decisions in the right time - not too early, not too late.

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

I wait for options, hoping that a space for a pass will appear at the last moment.

Everything comes to him who knows how to wait.

You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

I've always told my son Scott the same thing: Don't rush into anything, because there's gonna be a lot of fish in the sea. You can be one of the people that's lucky enough not to become a loser two and three and four times over like people do, just by being a little more patient.

That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.

Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

The early bird gets the worm but the late bird doesn't even get the late worm.

Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.

Opportunity only gives you knockers once.

If we wait for the perfect answer, the world will pass us by

The secret to riches is the same as the secret to comedy - timing.

Sometimes it's good to miss a bus. It might be the wrong bus.