“What matters in politics above all, is not what one says, but what one does.”
The Proclamation of London (1949)
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“There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”
Bernhard Schlink book The Reader
Variant: ... So I stopped talking about it. There's no need to talk, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.
Source: The Reader
“All flesh is one: what matter scores”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
"All flesh is one: what matter scores?" in When Elephants Last In The Dooryard Bloomed : Celebrations For Almost Any Day In The Year (1973)
Context: All flesh is one: what matter scores;
Or color of the suit
Or if the helmet glints with blue or gold?
All is one bold achievement,
All is fine spring-found-again-in-autumn day
When juices run in antelopes along our blood, And green our flag, forever green…
James Callaghan (1912–2005) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; 1976-1979
On the general election of 1979, quoted in Kenneth Morgan, Callaghan: A Life (1997), p. 697
Prime Minister
“No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Source: Meditations (Hovory k sobě)
“What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) Indian lawyer, statesman, and writer, first Prime Minister of India
As quoted in Al Arab Vol. 9 (1970) by the League of Arab States, p. 9
“One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)