Top 64 Words Without Action Quotes
#1. Words without action are like wheels without traction. It is how you live that counts.
Geoff Thompson
#3. Remorse, etymologically, is the action of biting again: that's what the feeling does to you. Imagine the strength of the bite when I reread my words. They seemed like some ancient curse I had forgotten even uttering.
Julian Barnes
#5. Pretentiousness isn't always just big words and meaningless jargon, but also pretty words that either when put into action don't mean beans or hurt you in the long run. Oftentimes, the former appeals to the intellect whereas the latter appeals to the heart.
Criss Jami
#6. As a manager, the more you talk about something without following up with action, the less those words will matter.
Jonathan Raymond
#7. Purpose of words is to create silence. Purpose of action is to bring deep rest. Purpose of deep rest is to bring you fulfillment. In fulfillment you find joy, bliss
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#8. A movement is pioneered by men of words, materialized by fanatics and consolidated by men of action.
Eric Hoffer
#9. E made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a need of gestures. I am myself expressive, demonstrative; every feeling I have takes on expression: words, gestures, signs, letters, articulateness or action. I need this in others.
Anais Nin
#10. It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end.
Joseph Addison
#13. The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it.
John Steinbeck
#14. words themselves are action; they do not simply describe the world but in a very real sense make the world. Therefore it makes sense to pay attention to the worlds people are attempting to create in their words.
John Scalzi
#15. Meaning beginns in the words, in the action, continues in your head and ends nowhere. There is no end to meaning. Meaning which is resolved, parcelled, labelled and ready for export is dead, impartient - and meaningless.
Pfister
#16. Words are good, but there is something better. The best is not to be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be understood and represented by the spirit.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#19. Our love must not be a thing of words and fine talk. It must be a thing of action and sincerity.
Brian McGreevy
#20. Even small waves make it to shore. Use the potential you have through intention and action and enjoy your journey.
Tony Curl
#21. There was a fine line of making love and fucking but this was love-fucking. This was cruel but sweet. Angry but happy. It was a thousand words in one timeless action - righting the wrongs of our past and hopefully repairing a future we both didn't think we'd ever find.
Pepper Winters
#22. A powerful new idea can kick around unused in a company for years, not because its merits are not recognized, but because nobody has assumed the responsibility for converting it from words into action.
Theodore Levitt
#23. 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
#24. If we have the patience to wait until the mud (our mind) settles and the water is clear, if we remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself, the right words will arise, without our thinking about them.
Charlotte Joko Beck
#25. Without context words and actions have no meaning at all
Gregory Bateson
#26. Faith without any accompanying action is suspect".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#27. Without action, words are just words. Without violence, laws are just words. Violence isn't the only answer, but it is the final answer.
Jack Donovan
#28. Christian witness is concrete: words without actions are empty.
Pope Francis
#29. Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp.
Edward Abbey
#31. The gentlest thing in the world
overcomes the hardest thing in the world.
That which has no substance
enters where there is no space.
This shows the value of non-action.
Teaching without words,
performing without actions:
that is the Master's way.
Lao-Tzu
#32. The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world.
Laozi
#33. Texting is addicting. Once you get emotionally involved with constant outside stimulation assaulting your brain, it is hard to stop looking at your machine every two minutes. Without rapid fire words appearing on a screen, you feel bored, not part of the action.
Bill O'Reilly
#34. Actions are more precious than words
Kangin
#35. Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.
Criss Jami
#36. Poetry seldom occurs in poems. Poetry only occurs when words cause action.
Raoul Vaneigem
#37. Better choose silence than bitter words which shall leave nothing but bitter footprints
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#39. To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.
Smiley Blanton
#40. Values can't just be words on a page. To be effective, they must shape action.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#41. The politician, Johnson's experience had taught him, could make promises without keeping them; words spoken in public had little relation to the practical conduct of daily life. But whatever justification a politician may claim for deceptions, the statesman must align his words with his action.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#42. 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
#43. My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.
Frank R. Wolf
#44. What you've done isn't the only thing that defines who you are. Words are just as powerful as action. They can aspire action in others, can't they?
Erica Crouch
#45. There are questions that are not meant to be answered with words. Some questions take a lifetime to answer. Take action.
J.R. Rim
#46. Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.
Seneca The Younger
#47. For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. - Ingrid Bengis
K. Akhter
#50. We heard recently the touching story of a young flier who was killed in action. Before he died, he had time to scrawl only a few words as a brief final message to his parents back home. The note read: "Dear Mom and Pop; I had time to say my prayers. Jack."
James Keller
#52. Words are useless without action. Stop fantasizing and just DO it. Be a "game changer" or get played like an idiot.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#53. Thou we know that hearts cant lie
saying those words but i cannot try
even my mouth dont speak
we all know that action is louder than 'click
Iloveyouliketheocean
#54. Good words do not last long unless they amount to something.
Chief Joseph
#55. To me parenting is all about trust. If you don't live by your words or actions how do you expect your kids to listen to you?
Kevin Heath
#56. By all means tell the world how good you are - but do it with actions, not words.
Napoleon Hill
#57. Churchill used words for different purposes: to argue for moral and political causes, to advocate courses of action in the social, national and international spheres, and to tell the story of his own life and that of Britain and its place in the world.
Winston S. Churchill
#58. Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a character to act out the idea. And then the story takes care of itself.
Ray Bradbury
#59. Enjoy the silence, because one wrong action cost more than a million words.
R. Martinez
#60. That's politics, power: it's all verbal, a continuous blizzard of words. But it's not just speaking, it's making statements. It's action; it's doing something without doing anything.
Harry Mulisch
#61. Enthusiasm is a state of mind that inspires and arouses one to put ACTION into the task at hand. It is the most contagious of all emotions and transmits the impetus toward agreement and action to all within reach of your words.
Napoleon Hill
#63. Your words say it to me ... Your actions tell it to me.
Steve Maraboli
#64. All action must be performed with detachment. Regard pain, pleasure; gain, loss; victory, defeat as equal. Battle for battle's sake with your mind completely on what you must do. With this knowledge there is no waster even in the first attempt. There are no impediments.
Meera Uberoi
