Quotes About Actions Rather Than Words

#1. Good appearance doesn't make a real man. The important thing is to do your best and keep your promises. A real man should show his faith in actions (rather) than words.

Yunho

#2. 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

#3. Everything, alas, is an abyss, - actions, desires, dreams, words!

Charles Baudelaire

#4. Writers are people whose words speak louder than their actions.

Shon Mehta

#5. The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. Every single day, no matter who you meet in the day - friends, family, work colleagues, strangers - give joy to them. Give a smile or a compliment or kind words or kind actions, but give joy! Do your best to make sure that every single person you meet has a better day because they saw you.

Rhonda Byrne

#7. Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

Baron De Montesquieu

#8. Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Socrates

#9. I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words.

Henry L. Stimson

#10. Realize you have awesome people around you who want to love you. Let them. Show them you love them back. (Actions trump words.) Do the forgiveness thing. If necessary-and it almost always is- do the forgiveness thing on yourself.

Kari Luna

#11. Actions are more precious than words

Kangin

#12. An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.

Lord Chesterfield

#13. The truth is more complex than it seems and a good heart has more impact than anyone with a thousand words or actions.

Robin Sacredfire

#14. I do believe that actions often speak louder than words.

Annette Gordon-Reed

#15. After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.

Criss Jami

#16. The ultimate step in taking responsibility is making sure our actions line up with our words.

John C. Maxwell

#17. He who is sincere hath the easiest task in the world, for, truth being always consistent with itself, he is put to no trouble about his words and actions; it is like traveling in a plain road, which is sure to bring you to your journey's end better than byways in which many lose themselves.

John Tillotson

#18. All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Albert Einstein

#19. Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think.

Patrick Lencioni

#20. 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

#21. Actions speak louder than words."

Hardly original but judge people by what they do rather than what they say they will do.

Thomas Ullman

#22. Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted role at great remove from their own hearts.

Parker J. Palmer

#23. I began the project of judging Mother Teresa's reputation by her actions and words rather than her actions and words by her reputation.

Christopher Hitchens

#24. The longer children live on the street, the more they realize the meaninglessness of words. They don't say things such as 'Thank you' and 'you are my friend.' They'd rather show through their actions what is inside. It is more difficult for these street kids to speak than to act.

Chi Cheng Huang

#25. 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

#26. Rather than wait to be discovered, discover yourself. Whatever it is that you intend to do later, start doing it now, get good at it, and show people what you've done. Actions speak louder than words.

Steve-O

#27. INTEGRITY ... Choosing your thoughts, words and actions based on what's right rather than what's in it for you.

Tanya Masse

#28. 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

#29. What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions.

Ezra Taft Benson

#30. 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

#31. What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say.

T.F. Hodge

#32. Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.

Criss Jami

#33. It is a sweet thing to have someone love you, but it is a far sweeter thing when his actions convince your heart, and his words persuade your soul.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#34. You can set a boundary with your words when you are honest and when you establish a consequence for another's hurtful actions.

Henry Cloud

#35. It is not the words or the actions you should trust, rather the pattern.

Shannon L. Alder

#36. 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

#37. Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.

William Arthur Ward

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. Isn't about words or beliefs. It's about actions. Going ahead with this even though you're afraid, especially

Kaylea Cross

#41. The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.

Jean De La Bruyere

#42. If there is no silence beyond and within the many words of doctrine, there is no religion, only a religious ideology. For religion goes beyond words and actions, and attains to the ultimate Truth only in silence and Love.

Thomas Merton

#43. The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,
words with little meaning, actions with little worth,
one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.

Thomas Carlyle

#44. There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.

Sophie Swetchine

#45. The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.

Tacitus

#46. There are questions that are not meant to be answered with words. Some questions take a lifetime to answer. Take action.

J.R. Rim

#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. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words

Oscar Wilde

#49. They say actions speak louder than words, but actions don't speak. People speak, and people are loud.

Jennette McCurdy

#50. People say actions speak louder than words, but sometimes it's the words that hurt the most. Actions are easy to ignore, but words hit you right where it hurts.

Sudeep Nagarkar

#51. Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.

Bob Ehrlich

#52. Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions

Jonathan Edwards