T. D. Jakes Quotes

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

The world's not going to wait for you. If you have an idea, put some effort behind it and get it out there.

God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.

The world is full of people who say, 'But I had that idea first,' but did they do anything about it? Nope, they sat on their bum dreaming.

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.

Ideas lead to actions.

If you really want to do something, go and do it; don't just talk about it.

If you have a goal, you have to step forward and try to get it accomplished.

I'm the type to say a prayer and then go get what I just prayed for.

If you have an idea, immediately move on it. To start that fire and get it burning immediately...it's everything.

Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat.

There's at least a hundred times more people with great ideas than people that are willing to put in the effort to execute them well.

There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them.

It's not the dreaming, it's the doing.

Many people have the right aim in life, they just never get around to pulling the trigger. The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps -- we must step up the stairs.

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

Worry less about solutions from the top or the idea that there is a solution, but try to do whatever you can and instill in each action the values that you want to result.

I've known people who had fantastic ideas, but who couldn't get the idea off the ground because they approached everything weakly. They thought that their ideas would somehow take off by themselves, or that just coming up with an idea was enough. Let me tell you something - it's not enough. It will never be enough. You have to put the idea into action. If you don't have the motivation and the enthusiasm, your great idea will simply sit on top of your desk or inside your head and go nowhere.

You want to take action every day, not sit around waiting for something to happen.

Infuse your life with action.

My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.

If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen.