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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It is difficult to survive as an author in Sweden, so for commercial success, it is good idea to write crime, get yourself translated, and live happily ever after.
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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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Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed that God showed favor by bestowing wealth and other forms of success on what they called 'the chosen.'
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This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.
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Most people respond to my paintings quite generously, but there have been cases where I think people - a few critics in particular - were actually moved by the work but were disturbed by the feelings it evoked, so they attacked it. Some people find the realm of my work quite uncomfortable.
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When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.
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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.
