What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.

People should not worry so much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant. If you are righteous, then what you do will also be righteous. We should not think that holiness is based on what we do but rather on what we are, for it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctified our works.

[...] you should not wait for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do your duty; but do good of your own accord.

You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.

Goodness is not the pursuit of conformity. If you conform to a belief, to a concept, to an idea, to a principle, that is not good, because it creates conflict. Goodness cannot flower through another, through a religious figure, through dogma, through belief; it can only flower in the soil of total attention in which there is no authority. The essence of goodness is a mind that is not in conflict. And goodness implies great responsibility. You can't be good and allow wars to take place. So a person who is really good is totally responsible for his whole life.

For it is not what happens to me that makes me great, but it is what I do.

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

For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.

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

Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not in the applause. Good deeds are, in a deeper psychological way, a favor to oneself. If this is not grasped, then our whole sense of personal relationships becomes warped.

People do not become great by doing great things. They do great things because they are great.

Doing good,
Disinterested good, is not our trade.

Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.

What you do is more important than how you do everything else, and doing something well does not make it important.