T. D. Jakes Quotes

Leaders teach. They motivate. They care. Leaders make sure that the way to success is always broad enough and straight enough for others to follow.

I think it's very important to send the message that, while parents are needed to remind you to practice and occasionally force you to finish things... they also need to learn to respect you. You as an individual, ultimately, are the captain of where you're going.

Show people how to have success and then you can push their expectations up.

My role is to coach, encourage, inspire, motivate, and help people.

Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.

But I get a thrill out of bringing a group together and helping them reach a place they didn’t know they could go. I see myself as a mentor now and I’m excited to lead some of these talented young guys.

Leadership is about calling people to do things beyond themselves.

I feel like my job as CEO is always to be pushing people ahead.

When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.

A hatchling, that is what you are. A hatchling struggling into the world. I may be younger than you in years, but I am ancient in my thoughts. Do not worry about these things. Find peace in where and what you are. People often know what must be done. All you need to do is show them the way — that is wisdom.

The best gift you can ever give your mentor is to grow. They feed off your growth. I believe that everyone has the seed of success inside, but too many people can't find it in themselves and as a result do not reach their potential. But there are those whose purpose in life is to fertilize the seed of potential in another, who are rewarded by seeing that person grow and blossom before their eyes. Raising up others to a higher level is a mentor's joy and sustenance.

It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.

It is said that one should not hesitate to correct himself when he has made a mistake. If he corrects himself without the least bit of delay, his mistakes will disappear.

Leadership will either lead you into a ditch or lead you into purpose. We need our leaders, especially those who are teaching our young people, to have the right message.

To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.

The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.

The leader's job is to lead and protect. Not have all the answers, not know everything to do, not to micromanage and tell people what to do or how to do it. A leader's job is to lead and protect. That's their job, and it's the people within the organization - their job is to get the work done.

Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids.

Accepting responsibility for the actions of others contributes to your own greatness.

The most inspirational man I knew only reached his potential by helping a child reach his.

Leadership is about moving people from where they are to where you hope they'll go.

The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible. Certainly not to be trusted.

At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.

I am really proud of the development of the people on my team as they grow in purpose; they like what they see in the mirror.