Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

Education without execution is extinction

He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

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

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

It is not the knowing that is difficult, but the doing.

Great is the study that brings us into action.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

The truth is, people love to learn.

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.

It's better to do it than to talk about how perfect it could be.

Insight must precede application.

An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory!

It's surprising how many people get bogged down in analysing, planning, and organizing when what they really need to do is take action.

Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.

All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.

We need to give thought, but we also need to take action. You need to dream without just being a dreamer.

It's time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it.

An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.