Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher
We The Living (1936)
Source: We The Living Part One Chapter 6
“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
Variant: Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
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“It's important to know what you don't want, but it's vital to know what you DO want.”
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 152
“Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.”
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker
Variant: Do what you don’t want to do to get what you want to get.
“Why you gotta act like you know, if you don't know?
It's okay if you don't know everything.”
Ben Folds (1966) American musician
"Bastard", "Songs for Silverman" (2005).
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U.G. Krishnamurti (1918–2007) Indian philosopher
As quoted in A Taste of Death: Thirty Days with U.G. in Gstaad, Switzerland http://www.scribd.com/doc/3101240/A-Taste-of-Death (1995) by Mahesh Bhatt. Bhatt precedes this quote with the observation "You are what you do, not what you say you want to do" which has sometimes been misquoted as part of Krishnamurti's statement.