Robert Cecil Quotes

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

A lot of people preach and talk, but I think the only way to preach is to actually do things.

You can't say one thing and behave another way. Kids learn more from watching you in life than what you say to them.

We must practice what we preach.

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

Habits are learned. And children learn their habits by watching what we do, not by listening to what we say. So we have to stop talking and teaching and preaching and just go do.

Lead by examples, not words.

I feel like it's better to see a sermon lived than it is to hear one preached.

I think the way kids learn most is not by what you say, but by what you do.

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do.

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.

Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.

Example is the best precept.

I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Preaching don't mean you are a true man. You got to go out and do.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

My actions speak harder than words.

It's better I keep my mouth shut. Let my feet do the talking.

The true meaning of a term is to be found by observing what a man does with it, not by what he says about it.