Top 76 Quotes About Action More Than Words
#1. From the day I was born I have always loved action more than words. But now only words are left.
Sattareh Farman Farmaian
#2. Let your words merely reiterate what your actions have already stated.
Steve Maraboli
#4. 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
#5. Today you are more inclined to put your ideas and visions into action than usual were you have the ability to express yourself and solve problems alone.
Auliq Ice
#6. 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
#7. The odor of literature as a stopgap, of words piled one upon the other to avoid taking action or to console oneself for being incapable of it.
Rene Daumal
#8. 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
#9. There was a fine line of making love and fucking but this was love-fucking. This was cruel but sweet. Angry but happy. It was a thousand words in one timeless action - righting the wrongs of our past and hopefully repairing a future we both didn't think we'd ever find.
Pepper Winters
#10. Even small waves make it to shore. Use the potential you have through intention and action and enjoy your journey.
Tony Curl
#11. Our love must not be a thing of words and fine talk. It must be a thing of action and sincerity.
Brian McGreevy
#12. Remorse, etymologically, is the action of biting again: that's what the feeling does to you. Imagine the strength of the bite when I reread my words. They seemed like some ancient curse I had forgotten even uttering.
Julian Barnes
#13. Pretentiousness isn't always just big words and meaningless jargon, but also pretty words that either when put into action don't mean beans or hurt you in the long run. Oftentimes, the former appeals to the intellect whereas the latter appeals to the heart.
Criss Jami
#14. As a manager, the more you talk about something without following up with action, the less those words will matter.
Jonathan Raymond
#15. Purpose of words is to create silence. Purpose of action is to bring deep rest. Purpose of deep rest is to bring you fulfillment. In fulfillment you find joy, bliss
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#16. A movement is pioneered by men of words, materialized by fanatics and consolidated by men of action.
Eric Hoffer
#17. E made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a need of gestures. I am myself expressive, demonstrative; every feeling I have takes on expression: words, gestures, signs, letters, articulateness or action. I need this in others.
Anais Nin
#18. It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end.
Joseph Addison
#21. 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
#22. There is something more severe than the problem with Thomas Friedman, which can be generalized to represent someone causing action while being completely unaccountable for his words.
Thomas Friedman
#23. The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man.
Fernando Pessoa
#24. Action achieves more than words.
Euripides
#25. True sincerity works more than a magnet. It attracts, bond and take people farther far better than mere action and words!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#26. I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude - we've proven that time and time again. People are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and force action. They kill and revive, corrupt and cure.
Dan Abnett
#27. Be of good spirit, walk in silence, push forth more actions than words.
Henry Johnson Jr
#28. Trust in the silent doers. It is far more difficult to put your dreams into action than into flowery words.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#29. One small action of love can do far, far more for a soul than all the most beautiful words in the world.
Eileen Caddy
#30. In Zen, actions speak louder than words. Doing is more important than knowing, and knowledge which cannot be translated into action is of little worth.
Thich Thien-An
#31. The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it.
John Steinbeck
#32. When the actions becomes frequent than the words, success becomes heavier than the dreams. Do more, say less.
Israelmore Ayivor
#33. 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
#34. But love, I've come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.
Nicholas Sparks
#35. What one does is always worth more than words.
Marty Rubin
#37. 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
#38. It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#39. If you let your man-made actions to be more frequent than your man-said words you will travail with praise in man-win visions. Do more, say less, win big.
Israelmore Ayivor
#40. My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.
Frank R. Wolf
#41. Words are useless without action. Stop fantasizing and just DO it. Be a "game changer" or get played like an idiot.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#43. Actions are more precious than words
Kangin
#46. For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. - Ingrid Bengis
K. Akhter
#47. Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.
Seneca The Younger
#48. There are questions that are not meant to be answered with words. Some questions take a lifetime to answer. Take action.
J.R. Rim
#49. What you've done isn't the only thing that defines who you are. Words are just as powerful as action. They can aspire action in others, can't they?
Erica Crouch
#50. Thou we know that hearts cant lie
saying those words but i cannot try
even my mouth dont speak
we all know that action is louder than 'click
Iloveyouliketheocean
#51. 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
#52. The politician, Johnson's experience had taught him, could make promises without keeping them; words spoken in public had little relation to the practical conduct of daily life. But whatever justification a politician may claim for deceptions, the statesman must align his words with his action.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#53. Values can't just be words on a page. To be effective, they must shape action.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#54. To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.
Smiley Blanton
#56. Better choose silence than bitter words which shall leave nothing but bitter footprints
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#57. Poetry seldom occurs in poems. Poetry only occurs when words cause action.
Raoul Vaneigem
#58. Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.
Criss Jami
#59. Enthusiasm is a state of mind that inspires and arouses one to put ACTION into the task at hand. It is the most contagious of all emotions and transmits the impetus toward agreement and action to all within reach of your words.
Napoleon Hill
#60. Meaning beginns in the words, in the action, continues in your head and ends nowhere. There is no end to meaning. Meaning which is resolved, parcelled, labelled and ready for export is dead, impartient - and meaningless.
Pfister
#61. 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
#64. We heard recently the touching story of a young flier who was killed in action. Before he died, he had time to scrawl only a few words as a brief final message to his parents back home. The note read: "Dear Mom and Pop; I had time to say my prayers. Jack."
James Keller
#65. All action must be performed with detachment. Regard pain, pleasure; gain, loss; victory, defeat as equal. Battle for battle's sake with your mind completely on what you must do. With this knowledge there is no waster even in the first attempt. There are no impediments.
Meera Uberoi
#66. Your words say it to me ... Your actions tell it to me.
Steve Maraboli
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. The words aren't enough every time. Actions speak much more.
Deyth Banger
#71. Enjoy the silence, because one wrong action cost more than a million words.
R. Martinez
#72. Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a character to act out the idea. And then the story takes care of itself.
Ray Bradbury
#73. Churchill used words for different purposes: to argue for moral and political causes, to advocate courses of action in the social, national and international spheres, and to tell the story of his own life and that of Britain and its place in the world.
Winston S. Churchill
#74. By all means tell the world how good you are - but do it with actions, not words.
Napoleon Hill
#75. To me parenting is all about trust. If you don't live by your words or actions how do you expect your kids to listen to you?
Kevin Heath
#76. Good words do not last long unless they amount to something.
Chief Joseph
