Top 63 Action Not Words Quotes
#1. Show, not tell, right? Action, not words. You don't want to hear how sorry I am or how things will be different this time. You want to see it with your own eyes. And until I can show you that, you won't tell me what I want to hear.
Ann Aguirre
#3. Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action
Mae West
#4. Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#5. Mr. Head stood very still and felt the action of mercy touch him again but this time he knew that there were no words in the world that could name it. He understood that it grew out of agony, which is not denied to any man and which is given in strange ways to children.
Flannery O'Connor
#6. Let us not demeanor or belittle. Rather, let us be compassionate and encouraging,. We must be careful that we do not destroy another person's confidence through careless words. or actions.
Thomas S. Monson
#7. TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying deeds, and not words, are what count most.
Napoleon Hill
#8. THOUGHTS are the WORDS supported with the ACTION and both are not independent of each other to produce results.
Anuj
#9. My father-in-law, Barney Rawlings, spent a couple of months hiding out in France in 1944, frantically memorizing a few French words to pass himself off as a Frenchman, but his ordeal had not inspired in me any action until I started taking a French class.
Bobbie Ann Mason
#10. Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.
Maximillian Degenerez
#11. My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action.
Shannon L. Alder
#12. Good leadership puts the interests of the community as a whole before those of any specific group. Credibility of leadership can only be established through action and not words.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#13. We can not just live any how. There are consequences for every action, where evil or good.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#14. As the United Nations pushes for jurisdiction over the globe, it is important to remember how it has acted in Bosnia. The character of an institution, no less than of an individual, is revealed through actions, not words.
Wendy McElroy
#15. The time is not there for us to act any more, the time we waited for is here right now for us to act brightly and create a bright future, for the future coming generations.
Auliq Ice
#16. The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words.
Suzanne Curchod
#17. But it is not always the people who say most who do most.
Agatha Christie
#18. The suffragettes were women of action. Their motto was 'Deeds not Words,' and the film reflects that with a number of big set pieces, from the smashing of windows in central London to a riot at the Houses of Parliament.
Sarah Gavron
#19. The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of man.
Jacob Bronowski
#20. You ask me why I do not write something ... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale
#21. If you deserve it, and repent in action - not in words. I want no more words.
Charles Dickens
#22. Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along.
Thomas Sowell
#23. Screaming, it's not me. I tried it before! Action is more my thing. Not talking. It's hard for me to have word fights, fighting with words. I'd rather just listen.
Ziggy Marley
#24. Do not analyze things to death. Sometimes the best strategy is, "Ready, fire, aim." Do it first , then make adjustments. The answer lies in action-not in words.
Philip Toshio Sudo
#25. The history of nations shows that words are not always immediately followed by action.
Gustav Stresemann
#26. Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed
Abraham Lincoln
#27. I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I do - for my words are naught but thy own thoughts in sound and my deeds thy own hopes in action.
Khalil
#28. This is an opportunity for failure as much as it is one to succeed. Do not block out the voices of opposition, study them and defeat their words and prejudices through brilliant action.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#29. Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.
William Hazlitt
#30. Love is an act of will, both an intention and an action. "Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth" (1 John 3:18). ~Jason Versey
Jason Versey
#31. Texting is addicting. Once you get emotionally involved with constant outside stimulation assaulting your brain, it is hard to stop looking at your machine every two minutes. Without rapid fire words appearing on a screen, you feel bored, not part of the action.
Bill O'Reilly
#32. Words and thoughts concerning compassionate action that are not put into practice are like beautiful flowers that are colorful but have no fragrance.
Nhat Hanh
#33. Our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action.
John The Apostle
#34. Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.
Criss Jami
#35. Drop the thought that you cannot affect the future. Tell yourself that the future is not coming TO you, it is coming THROUGH you. The change that is coming to you is that change that you place in your future with the thoughts, words, and actions of today
Neale Donald Walsch
#36. There are questions that are not meant to be answered with words. Some questions take a lifetime to answer. Take action.
J.R. Rim
#38. Good words do not last long unless they amount to something.
Chief Joseph
#39. By all means tell the world how good you are - but do it with actions, not words.
Napoleon Hill
#40. That's politics, power: it's all verbal, a continuous blizzard of words. But it's not just speaking, it's making statements. It's action; it's doing something without doing anything.
Harry Mulisch
#41. Words are good, but there is something better. The best is not to be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be understood and represented by the spirit.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#42. words themselves are action; they do not simply describe the world but in a very real sense make the world. Therefore it makes sense to pay attention to the worlds people are attempting to create in their words.
John Scalzi
#43. Our love must not be a thing of words and fine talk. It must be a thing of action and sincerity.
Brian McGreevy
#44. A powerful new idea can kick around unused in a company for years, not because its merits are not recognized, but because nobody has assumed the responsibility for converting it from words into action.
Theodore Levitt
#45. As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
Gore Vidal
#46. Saint Francis of Assisi understood the power of faith put into action to change the human heart, for it was he who said, "Preach the gospel always; when necessary use words." We had not yet spoken a word in their language, but the village elders had already "heard" the gospel.
Richard Stearns
#48. To resolve such conflicts peacefully in our interdependent - or what I would like to call our intra-interdependent - world requires not just well-chosen words but sustained and unified action.
Prince Hassan Bin Talal
#49. The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#50. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Mark Twain
#51. Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action.
Annie Lobert
#52. Teach not with your words, but with your actions; not with discussion but with demonstration. For it is what you do that your children will emulate, and how you are that they will become.
Neale Donald Walsch
#53. The problem with words is that they easily lose their meaning. Say something often enough and it becomes a tic, not an expression of how you actually feel. Not only that, but words rarely change things. Actions do.
Seth Godin
#54. A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.
Henrik Ibsen
#56. They speak to me, not in words, but in action.
They tell me that life goes on.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#57. The true measure of a best friend is where they are when you "make" the biggest decision of your life, not where they were during the decision process.
Shannon L. Alder
#58. She doesn't acknowledge Tucker, and there's no thank you for the cigarettes. She says a person shows their gratitude by action, not by words. So I guess that means she thanks me by smoking every cigarette in every pack.
Peter Hedges
#59. There are more worlds than one, and in many ways they are unlike each other. But joy and sorrow, or, in other words, good and evil,are not absent in their degree from any of the worlds, for wherever there is life there is action, and action is but the expression of one or other of these qualities.
James Stephens
#60. It's time for greatness
not for greed. It's a time for idealism
not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.
Marian Wright Edelman
#61. Good Person, Good Words and Good Action are independent, wisdom lies in recognizing each of this good irrespective of other one or two being not Good.
Venkat Gandhi
#62. Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
Alfred Adler
#63. I am not a teacher in my heart," she said. "I am a doer, and all these little shitheads in front of me are do-nothings. There is racism in the world and they acknowledge it, but they sit in class listening to bullshit professors. Give me a bricklayer with a racist attitude. It is just more honest.
Allan Dare Pearce
