Shirley Chisholm Quotes

Rather judge a person by his actions than by his words; because many act badly and speak splendidly.

Behavior is a much better barometer of what you are than words.

Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.

To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.

I believe in deeds, not words.

Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.

We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.

Reputation is a very interesting thing, and I always give people the benefit of the doubt, and I think that there's a part of all of us, especially in a generation where a lot of the stuff gets recorded.

The King is only fond of words, and cannot translate them into deeds.

You know, when you're real and speak your truth (in respectful ways), people won't always like you. But you'll like you.

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.

People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.

I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.

Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.

Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.

No, the only way to know what people think is to watch what they do, not what they say. Do they come back for more? Do you cause them to change their behavior? Can you make them smile?

I don't really care what a public figure thinks. I care about what he does. Let God probe his inner heart.

People should see your faith. If all you do is talk about your faith and people don't see it, but they ought to see it in the way you treat your family, you treat your friends, you treat your community.

I think it's really important to look at the walk and not the talk, and if you look at the walk, our paths [with Hillary Clinton] are extremely divergent.

I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist.

To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.