Quotes about Individuality
I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
— Bishop TD Jakes
The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come back, because caged lions don't mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.
— Bishop TD Jakes
To fulfill your purpose, you must first know and celebrate your identity!
— Bishop TD Jakes
It's miserable living someone else's life, and it is downright suffocating to live beneath your potential.
— Bishop TD Jakes
The very key to knowing your purpose is discovering and celebrating your personal identity.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds.
— Bishop TD Jakes
One of his main targets is your identity.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Some think that emulating those we admire makes us more effective and guarantees the result they exhibit. The goal is not to duplicate someone else's greatness or purpose, destiny or creativity.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Actually, isn't that what we want to know—our purpose? Then we can use the power to become who we really are. Life has chiseled many of us into mere fragments of who we were meant to be. To all who receive Him, Christ gives the power to slip out of who they were forced into being so they can transform into the individual they each were created to be.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Are you prepared to brave the negative reactions, comments, criticisms, and complaints that may arise from owning your authentic self? Can you handle it? Some people can't. They live without expressing the authenticity of what abides deep within them because the approval of others is more important to them than self-approval.
— Bishop TD Jakes
You can't let other people determine how far you are willing to go to reach Destiny because it's simply not their call. They don't get it, so don't worry about them!
— Bishop TD Jakes