“At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.”

“On the day of judgment, it will be demanded of us not what we have read, but what we have done.”

“After all, what are we, what is any one of us, if not a combination, particular and exact, of what we have done, what we have read, and what we have imagined?”

“If men used as much care in uprooting vices and implanting virtues as they do in discussing problems, there would not be so much evil and scandal in the world, or such laxity in religious organizations. On the day of judgment, surely, we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken but how well we have lived. Tell me, where now are all the masters and teachers whom you knew so well in life and who were famous for their learning? Others have already taken their places and I know not whether they ever think of their predecessors. During life they seemed to be something; now they are seldom remembered.”

“it matters not what we have been but this an always this: what we shall be.”

“...success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done.”