Georges Bernanos Quotes

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Remember that the biggest gap in the world is between 'I should' and 'I did.'

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Stop rationalizing, stop stewing. Get up out of your chair and start doing.

Be a doer, not a stewer.

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.

Anything I do, I always have a reason for.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

He who does not want does not act.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger.

Thinking is easy; action is difficult; to act in accordance with one’s thought is the most difficult thing in the world.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Every day you don't do something, it makes it less likely that you will ever do something. So you've got to get started right away.

You can have the best intentions in the world but if you do nothing, you are nothing.

Doubt can only be removed by action.

There is always a gap between intention and action.

Here's where we are, this is what's happening. So do something, or get out of the kitchen.