Words Are Empty Quotes

#1. words are empty if you're too cowardly to actually make your promises come true.

Alex Ashmore

#2. Actions are what shape our reality; words are empty without them.

Cathryn Louis

#3. Words are empty until you fill them, and how you fill them shapes the world.

Daniel Abraham

#4. We do not want to comprehend that people may and do die of emotional pain, or to recognize the terror in ourselves when we cannot seem to help someone in despair
when our words are empty.

Jill Bialosky

#5. There are no words precise enough to describe how wide and empty the world is when you lose someone that matters to you as much as Penny did to me.

Bill Clegg

#6. The words, I love you, are empty without clarification. Women prefer to be told what they can expect. It is measurable like a Weight Watcher's diet, with extra points at the end of the week if you don't cheat.

Shannon L. Alder

#7. The true measure of a best friend is where they are when you "make" the biggest decision of your life, not where they were during the decision process.

Shannon L. Alder

#8. The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.

Epicurus

#9. I do not know
What kind of my obedience I should tender.
More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers
Are not words holy hallowed, nor my wishes
More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes
Are all I can return.

William Shakespeare

#10. We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.

Chiang Kai-shek

#11. I'm going to be okay," Sadie promised as I left.
"I know you are," I said, except they were just empty hospital words, the kind that you wish were true becuase the alternative is too painful to bear.

Robyn Schneider

#12. Words are pretty, useless things - butterflies behind glass. You may feel warm and bright as you stare at their beauty but you'll walk away empty and cold, clutching nothing but the painful realization that you never really had anything at all.

Julie Johnson

#13. Christian witness is concrete: words without actions are empty.

Pope Francis

#14. English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.

Denis Johnson

#15. Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

Homer

#16. There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of God America will once more have an opportunity to show the world that she was born to save mankind.

Woodrow Wilson

#17. Quotes are empty and meaningless. It is how they are used that gives them purpose, how the person repeating those words gives them meaning. Good quotes do not offer the author immortality. Instead, they give the author limitless rebirths on the tongues of the masses.

Andy Clark

#18. Words are but empty thanks.

Colley Cibber

#19. We often hear what seem to be great ideas capable of transforming the world. But they are mere words devoid of emotion, empty of Love, which is why they do not touch us, however logical and intelligent they may seem.

Paulo Coelho

#20. Graves they say are warm'd by glory;
Foolish words and empty story.

Heinrich Heine

#21. His words are like the sound of a needle dragging across a record. A sinking, sickening feeling washes over me. This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So, when the whole things spills, you aren't as devastated.

Emily Giffin

#22. And empty words are evil.

Homer

#23. Diligence deserves to be rewarded." "In what proportion? And in what currency? These are empty words.

Eleanor Catton

#24. When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.

Hildegard Of Bingen

#25. Marriage and family are only what we make of them. Without that they're just a nest of hypocrisy. Garbage and empty words. But if there is real love, of the sort one doesn't go around telling everyone about, the sort that is felt and lived ...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#26. Promises are empty words if you're not keeping them.

Mike Ditka

#27. If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.

Francis Quarles

#28. "All men are created equal." "Government by consent of the governed." "Give me liberty or give me death." And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#29. How empty are the insincere words of people who, so easily, speak forth "love," "family" and "friendship" without meaning what they say even if their intentions are good albeit mere flattery.

Donna Lynn Hope

#30. People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers-
a thirty-something old writer, who strangles words from dictionaries, and feeds on the decay of poetry.

Anthony Liccione

#31. Platitudes are poor substitutes for emotions, this negative space hollowed out and without words. I know the shape of you and it has no name. I know the sound of you and the smell of you and the touch and sight and taste of you. But language departed the same day you did, leaving my mouth empty.

Tania De Rozario

#32. The warrior knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words. Yes. Love. God. They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.

Paulo Coelho

#33. When words are most empty, tears are most apt.

Max Lucado

#34. They speak to each other through the magistrate, like warring children communicating through a parent, their words are extravagantly emotive illustrated with flamboyant gestures that are wasted on the empty court room

Clare Mackintosh

#35. Oh, the others will talk and plan and make oaths and promises, but there are precious few fuckers who will do.

Ian McGuire

#36. Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled.

Freya Stark

#37. Promises to love without putting those words into action are just empty proposals. It's not tangible until it is actually seen. Love is action.

Annie Lobert

#38. I am a lover of love and I am a lover of words, and the two together spin visions of airy castles, but also may pierce the heart of hope. And so I remind you that I am a fool, a poet, and what matters is reality, not lovely words. Words are full of promise, yet empty of matter.

Waylon H. Lewis

#39. Motivation doesn't come from empty words, because words fade over time. If persistance and perservance is what you live then what motivation do you need? Your dreams can turn into goals and your goals can turn into a reality. You are all the motivation you need to succeed.

Gabriel Mason

#40. I'm trying to focus, telling myself these are just empty words, but I'm lying. Because somehow, just reading these words is too much; and the thought of her in pain is causing me an unbearable amount of agony.

Tahereh Mafi

#41. I was alive in the past, and I'm alive now, sitting here talking to you. But what you see here isn't really me. This is just a shadow of who I was. You are really living. But I'm not. Even these words I'm saying right now sound empty, like an echo.

Haruki Murakami