“What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.”
Source: Rework
“What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.”
Source: Rework
Variant: It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
“Decide what makes you happy and damn what anyone else thinks or says”
Source: Rush
Source: Power of Three (1976), p. 166.
“Say too soon what you think and you will say what everyone else thinks.”
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”
Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”
Variant: Now is no time to think of what you do not have.
Think of what you can do with that there is
Source: The Old Man and the Sea (1952)