Andy Stanley Quotes

You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards.

Deeds are fruits, words are leaves

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

A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.

Actions are remembered long after words are forgotten.

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

Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

History passes the final judgment.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Actions lie louder than words.

I would not hold that we must judge by the favorable or adverse result alone whether an undertaking was just or unjust.

I want to know what he did and who he failed.