Eliphas Levi Quotes

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

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.

Words without action mean nothing. I’ll show you.

You must take the will for the deed.

Thought is the soul of act.

TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most.

Thought is like a bubble rising to the surface. When thought is joined to will, we call it power. That which strikes the sick person whom you are trying to help is not thought, but power.

It isn't enough to love; we must prove it.

I'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in.

Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action, not a thought.

Deed done is well begun.

Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.

If you want to be clear, act.

What you do and what you say has consequence and impact. Impact is determined by the intention behind your words and the intention behind your deeds.

You can talk all day long, but if you don't do something, it's a waste.

Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating on the Thames. Intentions must be gathered from acts.

The best way to let others know what you're going to do is to actually do it.

What if my words Were meant for deeds.

One mighty deed can change the course of things; a lonely thought becomes omnipotent.

Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action.

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

A Deed knocks first at Thought And then - it knocks at Will - That is the manufacturing spot.