Top 40 Actions Speak Louder Than Words Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.”

— Anthony of Padua

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2. “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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3. “Your talk talks and your walk talks, but your walk talks louder than your talk talks.”

— John C. Maxwell

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4. “It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”

— Jane Austen

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5. “The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.”

— Colin Powell

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6. “Commitment is an act, not a word.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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7. “A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”

— Confucius

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8. “We must teach more by example than by word.”

— Mary MacKillop

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9. “A little less conversation, a little more action please.”

— Elvis Presley

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10. “Win through your actions, never through argument.”

— Robert Greene

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11. “Leadership is not a title. It’s a behavior. LIVE it.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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12. “The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts – it gives you what you demand with your actions.”

— Steve Maraboli

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13. “The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn’t count; building arks does.”

— Warren Buffett

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14. “You’re going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it’s always their actions you should judge them by. It’s actions, not words, that matter.”

— Nicholas Sparks

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15. “Body language is more powerful than words.”

— Ricky Gervais

16. “Willing is not enough, we must do.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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17. “Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.”

— Peter Marshall

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18. “I’m just ’bout that action boss.”

— Marshawn Lynch

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19. “Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.”

— Jordan Belfort

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20. “The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.”

— Vince Lombardi

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21. “Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words.”

— Ignatius of Loyola

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22. “To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.”

— Derek Sivers

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23. “Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking.”

— J. C. Watts

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24. “Learn by doing. Theory is nice, but nothing replaces actual experience.”

— Tony Hsieh

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25. “Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.’ That is why dogs make such a hit. They are so glad to see us that they almost jump out of their skins. So, naturally, we are glad to see them.”

— Dale Carnegie

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26. “Practice yourself what you preach.”

— Plautus

27. “Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”

— Steve Jobs

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28. “A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.”

— Dave Barry

Also featured in: Service Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Disrespect Quotes

29. “Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.”

— James Clear

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30. “Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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31. “If you want to learn to swim, jump into the water. On dry land, no frame of mind is ever going to help you.”

— Bruce Lee

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32. “Talk is cheap. Learn to listen with your eyes. Actions do speak louder than words. Watch what a person does more than what he says.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

33. “Without action, you aren’t going anywhere.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

34. “The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.”

— Andrew Carnegie

35. “Don’t wait until you feel like taking positive action. Take the action and then you will feel like doing it.”

— Zig Ziglar

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36. “Actions speak louder than words, but words spur actions.”

— Janet Todd

37. “What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.”

— Bell Hooks

38. “What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.”

— Simon Sinek

Also featured in: Friday Quotes for Work, Growth Mindset Quotes

39. “One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.”

— Swami Vivekananda

40. “Nothing happens until I make it happen.”

— Scott Wilson

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41. “No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions.”

— Subhas Chandra Bose

42. “Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Don’t just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also, the walk didn’t have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward.”

— Chris Gardner

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43. “There is no more powerful leadership tool than your own personal example.”

— John Wooden

44. “Ideas without action are worthless.”

— Harvey MacKay

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45. “It’s what you do right now that makes a difference.”

— Mark Bowden

46. “We are only what we do, not what we say we are.”

— Isadore Sharp

47. “Let the work speak for itself.”

— Anthony Caro