John Christopher Quotes

What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.

You are what you do. It's about actions.

Whether someone signs something is not what's important. It's what they do and how they do it that matters.

Clever is as clever does.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

Count the deed, not the thought.

It doesn't matter what I think I am, it matters what I do.

In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.

Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.

It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.

When it's all over, you're remembered for what you did, not what you said you were going to do.

Some things are better done than said.

Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.

Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.

What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.

Knowing isn't doing; doing isn't knowing. Nothing but the knowing and the doing gets it done.

Show me what you can do; don't tell me what you can do.

A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.

Actions are remembered long after words are forgotten.

Do-so is more important than say-so.

Virtue must shape itself in deed.

Most Christians are educated way beyond the level of their obedience already! We don’t need to know more, we need to do more.

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

More depends on my walk than talk.

True faith manifests itself through our actions.