“What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.”
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Pablo Picasso128
Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stag… 1881–1973Related quotes
“It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.”
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Quintana of Charyn
Alexander McCall Smith book The Careful Use of Compliments
The Careful Use of Compliments, chapter 2.
The Sunday Philosophy Club series
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
“What matters in politics above all, is not what one says, but what one does.”
Francis Parker Yockey (1917–1960) American writer
The Proclamation of London (1949)
“One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)
“One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.”
Ferdinand Foch (1851–1929) French soldier and military theorist
The Principles of War (1913)
“What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!”
Percy had no intention of doing that.”
Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune
Source: The Son of Neptune