T. D. Jakes Quotes
Surround yourself with those who won’t compete but will revel in your success and see your ascent as a reflection of their own possibilities.
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A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
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For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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Oh, you know, I think it was definitely a little pressure, to remake something like 'Fame'.
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I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.
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You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing every single day, so their craft is really sharp, and it's the best songwriters who consistently get on the radio.
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.
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Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.
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If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
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I grew up wrestling and playing football where, at the end of the game, you have a score and you're either the winner of loser. There's no score in acting, but you qualify your level of success by the people that you work with and the amount of exposure that you have.
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The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play.
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
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I consider myself a perpetual student. You seek and learn every day: from an experiment in the lab, from reading a scientific journal, from taking care of a patient. Because of this, I rarely get bored.
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Now that I'm more mature, in a funny way, I can even appreciate that I've bad to become more aware of my body. Since I've chosen acting as my career, I have to keep my weight down anyway-I've been used to it for years, so it's no problem. And there's nothing I can't do.
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Surround yourself with those who won’t compete but will revel in your success and see your ascent as a reflection of their own possibilities.
