T. D. Jakes Quotes

Part of success is preparation on purpose.

We've plotted through the years of how to get to here, where we are now, or we would have never made it.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.

One man of tolerable Abilities may work great Changes, and accomplish great Affairs among Mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and … makes the execution of that same plan his sole Study and Business.

You can have the best product in the world, you can have the best motivation in the world, you can have best education in the world, you can have all the money in the world - but if you don't have direction, you'll never go anywhere.

I think it's always good to have realistic short term goals and then lofty longer term goals.

If I focus on the short-term goals, then the long-term goals are going to be in my favor.

Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your goals?

Your ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success.

The Bible says, 'Where there is no vision, the people perish.' Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.

Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.

Success is never accidental.

The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact . . . those people have goals.

Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

Have a plan. Follow the plan, and you'll be surprised how successful you can be. Most people don't have a plan. That's why it's easy to beat most folks.

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.

Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.