Kenneth Tynan Quotes

A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.

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.

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

The end doesn't justify anything, because all we ever live with is the means.

The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

Actions will be judged according to intentions.

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

Talk is cheap. Actions speak.

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.

An ill deed cannot bring honor.

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.

Do right and you will be conspicuous.

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

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.

In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter.

It is interesting to see how humans would act if they knew there were never any consequences for their actions because the next day they could wake up and just redo it.

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.