“What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.”

“One of the most troublesome things in life is that what you do or do not want has very little to do with what does or does not happen.”

“It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.”

“And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often the opposite of what one really wanted to do.”

“Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.”

“What matters in politics above all, is not what one says, but what one does.”

“What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.”

“One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.”

“One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.”

“What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!”
Percy had no intention of doing that.”