Adoniram Judson Quotes

The wish precedes the event, the will accompanies it.

Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.

I know what I want to do and it makes sense to get going.

Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

Anything I do, I always have a reason for.

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

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

Ideas lead to actions.

Anything I do, I'm doing it for a reason.

Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.

Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.

Willing is not enough, we must do.

If you want to be clear, act.

You must take the will for the deed.

All know the way, but few actually walk it.

What if my words Were meant for deeds.

Success is choosing to enter the arena of action, determined to give yourself to the cause that will better humanity and last for eternity.

Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action!

You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

Thought is the seed of action.

Thought is the soul of act.