Quotes About Action

Even with good maps, there's no guarantee that the public will get the word about landslide hazards, or that state and local governments will take action to discourage or prevent building in dangerous areas.

Decisiveness is the one word that makes a good manager.

The word thank you ain't enough. You've got to show it, so just go out there and play at a higher level, and instead of saying thank you, show it.

You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Making a donation is the ultimate sign of solidarity. Actions speak louder than words.

People don't really believe in words. Or rather, people believe in words only for a stretch of time. Then they start to look for action.

I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

We must use words to uplift and include. We can use our words to fight back against oppression and hate. But we must also channel our words into action.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Deed, not words shall speak me.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

My actions will speak louder than words.

I generally think that I should only speak by action and not by words.

I didn't want to be a man of words but of action.

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

Some actors are better with words than me. I prefer to play it rather than say it - and keep people thinking.

Self-reliance is not just words, but deeds.

In school you teach us not to fight with others, to work things out, to respect others, to clean up our mess, not to hurt other creatures, to share, not be greedy. Then why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do? You grownups say you love us, but I challenge you, please, to make your actions reflect your words.

Personally, I think the silent films were more effective for L&H, but the sound was of great value in enhancing the effects - dialog eliminated a lot of action & sight gags - I always feel that 'action' speaks louder than words.

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.

Let deeds match words.

What you fill your mind with is eventually translated into the words you speak, and then your words create action.