T. D. Jakes Quotes

If we are paying attention to our lives, we'll recognise those defining moments. The challenge for so many of us is that we are so deep into daily distractions and 'being busy, busy' that we miss out on those moments and opportunities that - if jumped on - would get our careers and personal lives to a whole new level of wow.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

The whole growing-up process seems to have eluded me.

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

We can’t be what we don’t know.

When you're a kid, and you grow up, it takes some time for people to associate you with more things other than that initial thing.

It's cool to be able to give each other that space to really explore ourselves individually and grow.

I will keep - try - to be, like, on a new level every day.

We all have the things that we all have to work on, and things we have to get better at.

You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.

There's a shift and a change in how we've matured to becoming adults. 'Elevator Girl' represents our maturity.

I wake up every morning trying to be a new, better person and version of myself. I never try and be the same thing. So that's what's going to be hard for girls to keep up with me, because I'm always ever-evolving my style.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

Growth requires facing where you're at so you can go to the NEXT LEVEL

Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve?" Perfectionism is other-focused: "What will they think?"

I'm just beginning to live the next chapter of my life. In other words, politics - being governor and president - is not the end of my life. It's a chapter.

Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh.

If you could relive one year in your life, which one would it be? [...] The upcoming one.

You must not for one moment give up the effort to build up new lives for yourself.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.