Patrick Ness Quotes

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

In the end we are not going to be judged by how smart we are or by how much we care, but by what we have done.

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

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

You are what you do, not what you say.

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

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

At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.

You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into.

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

It is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged.

Nations are what their deeds are.

May each man be known, for the deeds he has done.

The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask what they believe, just observe what they do.

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

The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.

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.

Actions are remembered long after words are forgotten.

The world will not remember what you say, but it will certainly not forget what you have done.

I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our promises, includes our hopes, but promises first.

It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.

There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

Actions lie louder than words.

It is not what you say or hope or wish or intend but only what you do that counts. Your choices tell you unerringly who you really are.