Millicent Fenwick Quotes

As a man believes, so he will act.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Beliefs are so powerful because they dictate our efforts and actions.

Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.

The important is not what you believe but how you behave.

What you are will show in what you do.

Anything that changes your values changes your behavior.

Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations.

We have to believe it enough that it changes how we live.

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

Out of right thinking comes right practice. It is not true that it does not matter what a man believes. It is not true to say, as many say, that a man's beliefs do not matter, it is only his conduct which is of importance; no lasting right conduct grows out of wrong belief. If you think falsely, you will act mistakenly; if you think basely, your conduct will suit your thinking.

Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.

The true determining factor of our belief system is not what we're saying, but how we are living.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Action is character.

What you believe about who you are, where you came from, affects your whole worldview.

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct.

It's not what people do that matters, it's why they do it.

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

You can always tell what you believe by what you are getting.

Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.

It is what men think that determines how they act

What your beliefs are about anything creates your actions. What you believe about marriage creates the way you handle your marriage. What you believe about raising kids creates the way you do that.

Belief that influences behavior influences results.