Top 100 Quotes About Actions Not Words
#1. But honestly? What women need?" Dean paused to take a sip of his coffee. "Actions. Not words. Sorry doesn't mean shit, begging doesn't mean shit, and promises don't mean shit.
Priscilla Glenn
#2. By all means tell the world how good you are - but do it with actions, not words.
Napoleon Hill
#3. A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
George Washington
#5. You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.
Nicholas Sparks
#6. I come from a generation of sceptics, who do not believe what politicians say. The Labour Party wants to convince people through actions, not words. The Nationalist party have given the country 25 years of lies, the Labour Party will build the country anew.
Joseph Muscat
#7. 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
#8. Because it is in giving of ourselves and our possessions that we best please God; by actions, not words. And all men do deserve a chance to earn God's grace.
Susanna Kearsley
#9. Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.
Bill Owens
#10. Consider your actions and words. Be thoughtful when expressing your feelings or concerns. Sometimes it's not what you say, but the way you say it. That makes all the difference
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#11. Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.
Criss Jami
#12. It is not the words or the actions you should trust, rather the pattern.
Shannon L. Alder
#13. 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
#14. The power we hold comes with an added responsibility to inspire through words or actions and build someone else's life. Our power definitely does not lie in zapping others of their powers.
Tina Sequeira
#15. Love is our true nature. When we do not express love in our words and actions it is like honey hidden in a rock.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#16. There are questions that are not meant to be answered with words. Some questions take a lifetime to answer. Take action.
J.R. Rim
#17. Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.
Bob Ehrlich
#18. Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Socrates
#19. All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
Albert Einstein
#20. A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words.
Jack Weatherford
#21. Be moved by a person's actions, not their words. Remember a sugar-coated lie sounds more convincing than the naked truth.
Angeline M. Bishop
#23. Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers.
William S. Burroughs
#24. The wise do not buy into other people's perceptions of who they are and what they are capable of. Instead, they bypass a person's public persona and see who they are in their highest expression. When you see actions taken with integrity, instead of words only, you will then know a soul's worth.
Shannon L. Alder
#25. She sat there, with her feet in the water, not doing a thing, and all I could think was that this woman had changed my life. She'd changed the very universe I lived in - not by her actions or words, but with the curl of her lips as she smiled and the light in her eyes when she gazed upon mine.
Helen Cooper
#26. Anoint the saucepan with a touch of sunflower seed oil. Grease its scars, and as soon as the oils heats up, sprinkle with flour, pour on the bouillon and the moonshine strong as the hearts of the village man who knows not how to love with his words, only with his actions, and ass the chopped apple.
Vladimir Lorchenkov
#27. It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, Wait on time.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#28. The quality of a man is not determined by the opinions that others hold of him, nor by the opinions that he holds of himself. The quality of a man is determined only by his actions and the choices that he makes. Only that and that alone.
C. JoyBell C.
#29. You don't have to be 'adults' ... but be someone who can take responsibility for their own words and actions. Believe it or not, that's actually harder.
Natsuki Takaya
#30. His words and ensuing actions - fleeing instead of fighting - had indeed put a bit of doubt in the kindly elf's not-so-closed mind.
R.A. Salvatore
#32. Never let your soul be silenced. Live life out loud. Every day tell your truth not with words but with actions from your heart.
Cory Booker
#33. We could not help contrasting the equanimity of Nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume alwaysa crisis near at hand, but she is forever silent and unpretending.
Henry David Thoreau
#34. This is not a reaction to your words or actions, rather, it is in direct response to them
Deborah Brodie
#35. The key to leadership is having a vision, and being strong enough to say no and not try to please everybody. Thats a recipe for failure. Leadership is practiced through attitude and actions, rather than words and memos.
Matt Mickiewicz
#36. We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the indignities of others based upon their own principles and their own value system rather than their moods or anger.
Stephen Covey
#37. The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute;
he simply speaks and does what is right.
Mencius
#38. And this right here is what love is. It's not hurried and rushed, not lies and deceit. It's tender and giving, honest and trusting. It's the value of actions speaking louder than words.
Tiffany Aleman
#39. Faith is not mere belief but is that state you attain when you send your will, words, thoughts, beliefs, and actions into orbit around a chosen goal
Agona Apell
#40. We can easily see what actions and speech will lead us and others into hatred, confusion, difficulty, and suffering. And we can see what words and actions will not. ... Is our intention to hoodwink, mislead, inflate, or deceive others ... ?
Steve Hagen
#41. It's time for ordinary Americans to come out of the shadows and remind Washington every day in words and actions that we are a sovereign nation, not a sanctuary nation.
Michelle Malkin
#42. Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Mark Twain
#43. The battle you are going through is not fueled by the words or actions of others; it is fueled by the mind that gives it importance.
Shannon L. Alder
#44. It's easy to tell someone something you know they want to hear. What's not so easy is following up on those easy words and making what you said come to life. It's in taking the words and turning them into actions where most people give up and bail out.
Melyssa Winchester
#45. 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
#46. Spirituality is not a function of occupation or calling. A scientist may be more spiritual than a theologian; a teacher may be more spiritual than an officer. Spirituality is determined by personal outlook and priorities. It is evident in our words and actions.
Dallin H. Oaks
#47. Europe and America should judge Georgia's leadership on the basis of their actions, not just their words and promises. Otherwise Saakashvili will transform Georgia into a dictatorship.
Bidzina Ivanishvili
#48. If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
Fran Lebowitz
#49. Let your words match your actions. Become success conscious not failure conscious in order to make your dreams a reality; have a desire that burns in your soul to accomplish your goals.
Latorria Freeman
#50. Trust is rebuilt by focusing not on what the other person did or did not do but on critiquing one's own behavior, improving one's trustworthiness, and focusing attention not on words and promises but on actions, attitudes, and ways of being.
Kenneth Cloke
#51. Stop trying to change someone who does not want to change. Stop giving chances to someone who abuses your forgiveness. Stop walking back to the place where your heart ran from. Stop trusting their words and ignoring their actions. Stop breaking your own heart.
Trent Shelton
#52. 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
#53. My self-wroth is not linked to your cruel words and actions.
My self-esteem is not affected by your deliberate attempts to destroy my character.
You have no power over me.
You will not silence me.
Marina Cohen
#54. Do not let the words or actions of others make you doubt yourself.
Sissy Silva
#55. Love is not words, it's actions, and love isn't feelings, it's a decision.
Steven Furtick
#56. Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boastings.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#57. Those words of hers had meant nothing - you could not dismiss [however] a human being so easily.
Agatha Christie
#58. I need not present my actions, my words, myself for somebody else's approval. And basing my decisions on somebody else's approval or making my own approval contingent on somebody else's only postpones what I really want.
Jan Denise
#59. Managing excuses means not excusing yourself from the responsibility you need to take with your thought, words, and actions.
Lorii Myers
#60. Pray. Not just with your words, but with your actions.
Steve Maraboli
#61. If your words, actions and intentions are not genuine, I have no use for you or room for you in my life.
Tanya Masse
#62. Grace is given not to them who speak [their faith] but to those who live their faith.
Gregory Of Nazianzus
#63. It is not enough to say we are Christians. We must live the faith, not only with our words, but with our actions.
Pope Francis
#64. You do not write your life with words ... You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
Patrick Ness
#65. The longer you wait to decide what you want to do, the more time you're wasting. It's up to you to want something so badly that your passion shows through in your actions. Your actions, not your words, will do the shouting for you.
Derek Jeter
#66. And as she watches, she discovers that a dream creates a nonexistent intimacy, that one feels, all the next day after the dream, as though certain words have been said or actions taken which have not. So that the object of the dream feels familiar, when, in fact, no familiarity exists at all.
Anita Shreve
#67. I don't like losing the words, as you have to, when I'm asked to turn a play into a movie. It's not a matter of ego ... I'm just better able to create the character for an audience through words rather than through actions.
Neil Simon
#68. I'm pretty sure he did not believe in God or an afterlife, but he had to believe that there is an immortality in living so that your words and actions transform the world around you in ways that will continue to reverberate forever. No one with so much life in him can ever truly die.
Daniel Radosh
#69. 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
#70. Christ was on display early in my childhood. Both my mother and father were living examples of what it meant to live for Christ and have Him be the focal point of decisions, actions, thoughts and words. It was a blessing but not entirely unexpected when very young I also came to the faith.
Aaron Kampman
#71. I've learned from being in the woods that titles don't mean much and that actions speak a lot louder than words - even in Congress. I always look for the people who want to act - people who want to run the river or climb the mountain - even if they're not members of my political party.
Mark Udall
#72. Not because of my words - those are cheap and untrustworthy. But because of my actions, which are expensive and trustworthy.
Jon Acuff
#73. These days, we are constantly reminded of the unspeakable acts of violence and damage we can inflict upon one another, not just with our actions, but also with our irresponsible words," he said.
"We're better than this," he said. "We must do better.
Scott Kelly
#74. The most subtle flattery that a woman can receive is by actions, not by words.
Suzanne Curchod
#75. 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
#76. Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#77. I'm the kind of person that thinks that you should get what you deserve in what you show, with actions, not with words.
Cub Swanson
#78. It's not through words but actions that I want to set the luster on my life.
Sophocles
#79. Try to understand that there is more thoughtlessness than malice in the world. People are not out to offend you deliberately and maliciously. But all of us are thoughtless at times and do not readily realize that our words and actions are going to hurt people.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
#80. Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and to shape the course of destiny. Words can not only create emotions, they create actions. And from our actions flow the results of our lives.
Tony Robbins
#81. Loving others in a biblical manner involves your thoughts, words, and actions and is a sign of your being a disciple of Christ. Loving others biblically is dependent on your commitment to the Lord Jesus Christ and is not dependent on people, circumstances, or your feelings.
John C. Broger
#82. Love. Sometimes it's not what you say. It's what you do and how you make one feel without the use of words. Sometimes words confirm your actions and cause a reaction without the use words.
Carla Gipson Lizana
#84. You never have to second guess a person or your feelings and instincts about that person if you pay attention to their actions, not solely their words - actions always speak louder.
Jody Watley
#86. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. she perfumed my planet and lit up my life.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#87. We will have to repent, in this generation, not merely for the hateful words and actions of bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good,' King said,
Ken Follett
#88. Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but with actions, by reaching out, to the supporters of your opponent as well as to reassure your own supporters.
Marc Morial
#90. 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
#91. Whether a religion is of peace or violence should be defined by the actions of its people, not by some books.
Abhijit Naskar
#92. Almost certainly I will not tell her my intentions this evening or tonight. I will put it off. Why? Because words are actions and they make things happen. Once they are out you cannot put them back.
Hanif Kureishi
#94. Hopefully, when your actions and deeds - and therefore other people - boast for you, you're made tired of hearing it, too, from your own mouth because if not, all could lose sight of those actions and deeds behind the gong of your boasting.
Criss Jami
#95. How many times have I told you never listen to a person's words; watch their actions to see what is in their heart. A person can say many things they do not mean." Charlie to Beth
Lynsay Sands
#96. Actions win wars. Actions heal wounds. Not words. Words are cheap. Mine, particularly. -Drew Evans.
Emma Chase
#98. I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.
Andre Agassi
#99. At the end of the day, we are Christians, not Paulinians, and so where there is conflict between the teachings of Paul and our Lord, then we should give precedence to the words and actions of Jesus.
Kevin Mahoney
#100. It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
Henry Fielding
