T. B. Joshua Quotes

I believe in God. I got down on my knees and I said, 'I get it. If this isn't for me, then it isn't for me.' And then a week later, I started working. I worked on 'The Following,' I worked on 'Elementary,' I worked on a pilot and then I got 'Orange.' So literally from that moment of deep surrender, that's when you're blessed.

Though it seems curious, I do not remember ever asking for anything but what I got it. And I always received it as an answer to my prayers.

Jack Nicholson didn't get anything until he was in his thirties. You have to persevere and put yourself in positions, and sooner or later, you will break through.

I'm 62 years old, but I didn't give up on my dreams. I just feel that God heard my cry, and he put the right people in front of me.

Whenever I have asked something from God and worked hard for it, I have always got it, be it my Indian citizenship or my weight loss.

Here is the great secret of success. Work with all your might; but trust not in the least in your work. Pray with all your might for the blessing of God; but work, at the same time, with all diligence, with all patience, with all perseverance. Pray then, and work. Work and pray. And still again pray, and then work. And so on all the days of your life. The result will surely be, abundant blessing. Whether you see much fruit or little fruit, such kind of service will be blessed.

But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens.

To do anything of magnitude takes at least five years, more likely seven or eight. Rightfully or wrongfully, that's how I think.

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.

Anything in life worth working for, is worth praying for.

Prayer and hard work are a pretty good one-two punch to get things done.

You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.

Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work. The sheer toil can be healthy and exhilarating.

Hard work pays off if you're patient enough to see it through.

I know that success does not come at once, it is not a thing achieved overnight. It is the result of many, many, many years of working and trying to achieve goals.

Your patience will be rewarded.

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.

A good man's prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven's height, and bring a blessing down.

Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table.

If you put in the time, you’ll see the rewards.

There are three ways that men get what they want: by planning, by working, and by praying.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.

Brilliant results don't just show up by chance. The finest things in life take patience, focus and sacrifice.

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.