Top 34 Quotes About All Talk No Action
#1. P68- when a word is deprived of its dimension of action,reflection automatically suffers as well and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism,into an alienated and alienating "blah". It becomes an empty word that cant denounce the world.
Paulo Freire
#2. Our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action.
John The Apostle
#5. It's easy to talk about what you're going to do but your actions speak words.
John Assaraf
#6. Oh, the others will talk and plan and make oaths and promises, but there are precious few fuckers who will do.
Ian McGuire
#7. His countenance possessed in the highest degree what physiognomists call "repose in action," a quality of those who act rather than talk.
Jules Verne
#8. Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to resist the attacks of lust
Pope Clement I
#9. What we think about and talk about expands into action.
Wayne Dyer
#10. What love is not torment when a man knows not how to love himself? Talk not of drowning, but attaining your heart's desire by action: Put money in thy purse.
Christopher Moore
#11. Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
Theodore Roosevelt
#12. You see, Ana men think that anything that comes out of a woman's mouth is a problem to be solved. Not some vague idea that we'd like to kick around and talk about for a while and then forget. Men prefer action.
E.L. James
#13. Thoughts are free, talk is cheap, and action is expensive. What's your worth?
Noel DeJesus
#14. Some of us need to put down the megaphone and just grab a shovel. Little less talk and a lot more action.
Brad Lomenick
#15. I want to be more like the ocean ... no talk and all action.
Perry Farrell
#16. The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#17. People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.
Donald Trump
#18. These men are all talk; What is needed is action - action!
John Brown
#19. Understanding is the reward of obedience. Obedience is the key to every door. I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do.
George MacDonald
#20. UKIP talk a lot about immigration - but they don't have a serious plan for action.
Theresa May
#21. Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.
Seneca The Younger
#22. Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.
Ramakrishna
#23. My view of the charity world is that compared with business, there is too much talk, way too many meetings and expert panels and blue-ribbon commissions, and not enough action. Or as an Australian friend of mine once opined: "Sometimes you just have to have a go and get on with it, mate!".
John Wood
#24. If it doesn't do you any good, dump it. Take some action, push that lever, flush it away, and don't look back. Take small steps everyday of your life, and start taking control of what you say when you talk to yourself.
Dave Pelzer
#25. There is a time and a place for everything. There is a time and a place for talk. And there is a time and a place for action.
Carly Fiorina
#26. As a manager, the more you talk about something without following up with action, the less those words will matter.
Jonathan Raymond
#27. Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Thomas Carlyle
#28. Our love must not be a thing of words and fine talk. It must be a thing of action and sincerity.
Brian McGreevy
#29. You're always learning so much from people and how they work and what their processes are. Some people like to listen to music before they get into it, and some people can talk all the way up to, "Action!" Everybody is different.
Evan Peters
#30. It feels like people talk a lot, in their relationships and in therapy. But my family wasn't like that. My dad wasn't and I wasn't. Things were said, but via the language of action.
Leigh Newman
#31. Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live.
Jean Vanier
#32. Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
Jose Marti
#33. The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.
H.G.Wells
