Instinct Quotes

“Hardship can humble you, but it cannot break you unless you let it. Your instinct for survival will see you through if you’re attuned to its frequency. Instinct will find a temporary stopgap without ever taking its sights off your larger goals. There’s no greater way to hone your instincts than to overcome adversity.”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“When you don’t become fixated on winning the prize or appearing successful, and instead pursue your passions, then you will discover the fulfillment that comes from living by instinct.”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“Others can inspire you, but ultimately the only thing that empowers you is what lies within you and learning how to better utilize what you’ve been given.”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“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.”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“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.”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“When we are placed in a set of circumstances where we have to take initiative and be creative, some of us find it hard to transition. Those people have been trained not to think but to obey orders. They are slaves to the training, unconsciously pledging allegiance to the average. Mentally they recite from the manual of mediocrity.”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“When you’re living by instinct, then you will naturally enhance everything and everyone around you. In other words, success will come naturally! When both your intellect and instincts are aligned, then producing the fruits of your labors brings satisfaction beyond measure.”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“need instead to find people who are in sync with our beat and form a more perfect union with those who hear the same rhythm! It is time for us to find the thing we were created to do, the people we were meant to affect, and the power that comes from alignment with purpose. Having had unique opportunities to sit at the table”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“you leave the cage, the transition into the jungle will definitely be challenging. You take a few steps forward and a few back. You stumble and fall and get back on your feet. Such is the way we learn to lean forward and keep stumbling toward success.”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“We are assaulted by so much information each day that it’s easy to lose touch with the voice inside us, the compelling sense of knowledge, the awareness we have in our gut. In addition, we’re often conditioned to dismiss our instincts as primal and animalistic, subjective and unscientific. We’re taught to rely on facts and figures, data and digits, not hunches and gut feelings.”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“Maybe we need to stop choosing people purely by résumés and rationales that have led us headfirst into disappointment. We need instead to find people who are in sync with our beat and form a more perfect union with those who hear the same rhythm! It is time for us to find the thing we were created to do, the people we were meant to affect, and the power that comes from alignment with purpose. Having had unique opportunities to sit at the table with champions in”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“Unfortunately, many of us often spend our lives doing what we were trained to do. Some do what they were asked to do. And most of us do what others need us to do. And all the while, we wonder why the feeling of fulfillment eludes us.”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people’s refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true.”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“How you think about your opportunities determines how you will act on them.”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt.”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“both success and struggle are different kinds of trauma.”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“The unborn baby lies in a cage we call a womb. He has eyes but cannot use them, and a mouth that he has never eaten with. He has been innately equipped for a world he has not been exposed to. His innate instincts like sucking, seeing, walking, and sitting have never been utilized because no opportunity exists in his present safe and warm cocoon of development. He must be born and enter the world to discover the instincts imbued by his Creator.”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“Our greatest power doesn’t always emerge from our experiences, not even from our most intense ones. There’s incredible hidden treasure locked up in your instincts that may not always show on your résumé. If you can spend some time with yourself, you may be on the verge of the most powerful part of your life, discovering what’s inside that your instincts want to express outside. Think about what you gravitate toward when given time to relax and recharge.”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“Think about it this way: if you are too predictable in any area of your life, you may be paving the way to your own extinction!”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“My greatest fear is not living before I die, to play everything so safe that even though I had no risk I also enjoyed no reward.”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“Fear teaches you to be cautious, careful, and conscientious. It also forces you to be creative, compassionate, and calculating.”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“And though I may react to the trauma emotionally, shed private tears, have a meltdown away from people, or enjoy a complete “one flew over the cuckoo’s nest” episode, when I’m finished expressing emotion I keep on keeping on. When I finish my rant, tantrum, or moment of grief, I move into the instinctive survival mode that has empowered humans to endure plights and pleasures of all kinds. Change is often as painful for me to endure as it is for anyone else, but I have learned to take the bitter with the sweet and keep on moving forward.”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“my parents’ ideals are good ones, and I support them to the highest. But my parents could only promote us to the levels to which they themselves had been exposed.”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“The people ahead of you, living in the liberty of instinct-guided uniqueness, will welcome you, encourage you, and mentor you. They will inspire you to be a pioneer and not a poser. Only those incarcerated by their unwillingness to listen to their instincts and to take the risks required for success will seek to deter you.”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“We need instead to find people who are in sync with our beat and form a more perfect union with those who hear the same rhythm! It is time for us to find the thing we were created to do, the people we were meant to affect, and the power that comes from alignment with purpose.”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“Basic Instincts It’s the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“You never know what you might discover by thinking outside the box that culture, conformity, and critics have tried to impose.”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“Paying attention to what nourishes and stimulates your heart, soul, and imagination leads to listening to your instincts. In turn, listening to your instincts jump-starts the process of creating the fabric of your destiny. Like a designer sewing a garment, you take the vision within you and bring it to life in a suit to be worn for your next season of life. You are instinctively best at inventing what is in your inventory!”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“Perhaps looking at the forensics of your past can catapult you forward in a way that merely dreaming can never attain!”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive

“In my research, I was surprised to discover that some experts believe many people possess an instinct or a natural aptitude for making money, others for healing, creating art, organizing, or negotiating. I’m convinced our instincts emerge out of and alongside our gifting, so it makes sense that our instincts would reflect our talents and abilities.”
― T.D. Jakes, Instinct: The Power to Unleash Your Inborn Drive