Top 92 Quotes About Talk And No Action
#1. People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.
Donald Trump
#2. Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.
Steve Maraboli
#3. Conformism is a potent statement, and as much as we do talk about individuality in fashion, there's a sense that people are fearful of not conforming and not being part of action.
Erin O'Connor
#4. Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of action.
Swami Vivekananda
#5. CHANGE: Don't just talk about it, go out there and do it. Don't just meditate about it, go out there and create it. Don't just pray about it go out there and take action; participate in the answering of your own prayer. If you want change, get out there and live it. - Steve Maraboli
Steve Maraboli
#6. To plan and talk is good but to plan and take action is even greater.
Euginia Herlihy
#7. The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.
Price Pritchett
#8. I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living.
Dean Cain
#9. You want to prevent war, you talk, talk, but you also have to back it up with actions.
Steve Scalise
#10. Love is not talk or theory; it's action. In fact the Bible says that we cannot be walking in love if we see a brother in need, have what it takes to meet his need, and will not do anything to help him.
Joyce Meyer
#11. These men are all talk. What we need is action - action!
John Brown
#13. Being a Bengali, one is surprised when all the endless spume and froth of talk suddenly reveals itself to be the front of a gigantic wave of action.
Neel Mukherjee
#14. I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
Dorothy Day
#15. I think when people talk about civil liberties, they sometimes forget that action taken to protect the citizen against physical violence and physical attack is a blow in favour and not a blow against civil liberties.
John Howard
#16. The best ideas in the world will accomplish nothing if you leave them on paper. Talk about them. Debate, discuss, argue. Put them into action. Then you can change the world.
Kevin Stirtz
#17. We have an excellent list of speakers, but the spark will be provided by the crowd to turn talk into action. The Iraq occupation and the government's bumbling effort in New Orleans, has people wanting to act.
Ed Garvey
#18. The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen.
Geoff Mulgan
#19. I wonder what the world would be like if everybody walked their talk; if word was married with deed; promises delivered by action.
Tom Hiddleston
#20. So many people are full of talk, Maddie. But nothing happens unless someone steps up and takes action.
Katie Kacvinsky
#21. Don't talk yourself out of it; take action.
Steven Cuoco
#22. But most of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action.
Neil Postman
#23. All this talk about 'suffering humanity' is principally drivel based on the error of transferring one's own psychology to one's neighbour. The Golden Rule is silly. If Lord Alfred Douglas (for example) did to others what he would like them to do to him, many would resent his action.
Aleister Crowley
#24. We'll make love often in the first year, less in the second, and after the third year, people perhaps think about sex only once every two weeks and transform that thought into action only once a month. Even worse, we'll barely talk.
Paulo Coelho
#25. To have a song work for the movie, it can't just be written apart and shoved in. It's got to come out of the action. It's got to talk about the characters, not the story: it has to augment that action.
John Hughes
#26. To think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
Viktor E. Frankl
#27. Action choreographer is like talking. When you talk, you have a rhythm. When you act, you have a rhythm. When you're moving your body, you have a rhythm. So as an actor, as a choreographer, the objective is trying to blend everything in - into - ultimately back into that character.
Donnie Yen
#28. All talk is just that: talk. All the words written on these pages are just that: words. If you want things to get better, take action. Don't just talk about it. Don't just read and think about it. Do it.
Larry Winget
#29. Venezuelans have a long history. So we are able to listen to each other, to talk to each other. From here were born the liberators of the region, and they said before and after that process we have a culture of political action. We are not in despair. That's the image broadcast to abroad.
Nicolas Maduro
#30. I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car; all I listen to is sports talk.
Action Bronson
#31. Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show their feelings through their action or through dialog.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#32. For me, the acting part - and I have to say it makes me a little worried about my own psychological make-up - is that I just love to hide in other characters. I don't like to get up in front of people and talk as Kathy Baker. But as soon as you say 'action,' I'm lost in that character.
Kathy Baker
#34. Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.
Eric Hoffer
#35. [M]ost of our daily news is inert, consisting of information that gives us something to talk about but cannot lead to any meaningful action. (68).
Neil Postman
#36. The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action.
Howard Berman
#37. What one does is always worth more than words.
Marty Rubin
#38. Action is the only thing that proves something
Don't talk about it
Actually do it
In the end
You can say
I actually did it.
- Nate Spears
Nate Spears
#39. We talk a lot about the importance of physical exercise to wake us
up out of the half sleep in which so many of us walk around. But we need, even more, some spiritual and mental exercises every morning to stir us into action. Give yourself a pep talk every day.
Dale Carnegie
#40. To talk about the future is useful only if it leads to action now.
E.F. Schumacher
#41. Negotiate with those who wish to talk - and take action against those who create mischief.
Mamnoon Hussain
#42. Perhaps the most significant thing George Lucas did in creating 'Star Wars' was to fictionalize the Tao - to spark a universe where we can talk about the Force in objective terms and show it in direct action.
Matthew Stover
#44. Love is action. It isn't just talk, and it never was.
Audrey Hepburn
#45. Physical activity can get you going when you are immobilized. Get action in your life, and don't just talk about it. Get into the arena!
John Davidson
#47. If you truly feel that self esteem and motivation have to happen first before you can make changes in your life, then we'll probably be sharing walkers at a retirement home as we talk over what might have been.
Shannon L. Alder
#48. Our love must not be a thing of words and fine talk. It must be a thing of action and sincerity.
Brian McGreevy
#49. It's easy to talk about what you're going to do but your actions speak words.
John Assaraf
#52. Our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action.
John The Apostle
#53. 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
#55. The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.
H.G.Wells
#56. Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
Jose Marti
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. Oh, the others will talk and plan and make oaths and promises, but there are precious few fuckers who will do.
Ian McGuire
#61. These men are all talk; What is needed is action - action!
John Brown
#62. As a manager, the more you talk about something without following up with action, the less those words will matter.
Jonathan Raymond
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.
Seneca The Younger
#68. UKIP talk a lot about immigration - but they don't have a serious plan for action.
Theresa May
#69. 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
#70. Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Thomas Carlyle
#72. The most successful filmmakers are not always the most knowledgeable ones. They are the ones who put action to what they learnt. They do, not talk about doing.
Elliot Grove
#73. I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They're all talk and nay action - as we'd say in Scotland.
Shirley Manson
#74. Has anyone ever told you how cute you are when you talk like a geek?" She grinned at him and Einstein ducked his head, pleased at her mention of cute. "Enough chit-chat, charming. Time for action. You promised the boss you'd probe me.
Eve Langlais
#75. Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.
Pat Conroy
#76. I'm hideous"
"You could never be hideous"
"Forget it" I wanted this conversation over.
"I can't forget it," Gran said, not giving up so easily. "I don't like to hear you talk about yourself that way. Your scars do not define you, young lady. Your action do.
Cambria Hebert
#77. Men always say, "Let's see what you can do." If we always talk and never work we will not accomplish anything.
Belva Ann Lockwood
#78. I fail to understand why gethes (Humans), talk about individuals versus society. They are the same thing. The action of every individual counts, and those individual acts of personal responsibility accumulate to create society. Snowflakes are equally blind to their role in causing avalanches.
Karen Traviss
#79. I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger.
Edward Whitacre Jr.
#80. But it is meaningless to speak of short-range and long-range plans. There are plans that lead to action today - and they are true plans, true strategic decisions. And there are plans that talk about action tomorrow - they are dreams, if not pretexts for nonthinking, nonplanning, nondoing. The
Peter F. Drucker
#81. Talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always.
Sarah Dessen
#82. Leaders must live by the same principles and values that they expect from their teams and people. Leadership is about action: leaders must do their part before asking others to do theirs. Walk the walk; don't just talk.
Brian Hiner
#83. 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
#84. I want to be more like the ocean ... no talk and all action.
Perry Farrell
#85. Some of us need to put down the megaphone and just grab a shovel. Little less talk and a lot more action.
Brad Lomenick
#86. Thoughts are free, talk is cheap, and action is expensive. What's your worth?
Noel DeJesus
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. What we think about and talk about expands into action.
Wayne Dyer
#91. 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
#92. His countenance possessed in the highest degree what physiognomists call "repose in action," a quality of those who act rather than talk.
Jules Verne
