Quotes about Growth
if you are the smartest person in a room, you are in the wrong room.
— Bishop TD Jakes
If you have been betrayed or wounded by someone you brought too close, please forgive them. They really were a blessing. You will only be better when you cease to be bitter!
— Bishop TD Jakes
Things that are covered don't heal well.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Our instincts may have even guided us to hide parts of ourselves in order to keep them alive when we were younger.
— Bishop TD Jakes
When ideas hang out with influence, income will always emerge.
— Bishop TD Jakes
In a 2006 speech then-senator Barack Obama gave to a group of college students, he offered these sage words about success: "Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Increase your capacity to receive what is destined to happen if you believe! If you can see the invisible, you can do the impossible. You may have to stretch yourself or enlarge your circle of associates. You may have to expose yourself beyond your comfort zone or speak when you are naturally introverted. Stretch yourself; it's worth it!
— Bishop TD Jakes
The slower journey allows time for maturity and experience to shape you into the person who comfortably fits into your destiny.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Routines without ongoing assessment lead to stagnation and mediocrity.
— Bishop TD Jakes
When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Soon I was to find that people who had been creative at one stage of growth now seemed empty of ideas—and worse, they seemed not to notice that the ground had moved up under their feet! As I grew and encountered higher ideals and new goals, what had once been acceptable now seemed lethargic at best and lethal if ignored. You can't take everyone with you just because they were with you where you were before.
— Bishop TD Jakes
We may not like to admit it, but what if our crushing is necessary in order for our potential to be fulfilled?
— Bishop TD Jakes