Judith Rodin Quotes

In the end, what counts is what you do.

What people think and believe and plan are all very important, but what they do is the thing that counts most.

People should not judge me on what they hear. Let them wait and see me in action. Then they will see how I serve my people.

In the end, a man’s motives are secondary to his accomplishments.

Judge us not by the rhetoric; judge us by the results.

Leadership is not what you said on the Senate floor. It’s not what you’ve said. It’s what you’ve done.

A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.

We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it.

Actions are remembered long after words are forgotten.

You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.

Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

What you are will show in what you do.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Mayors are judged by results.

I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.

Actions lie louder than words.

I would not hold that we must judge by the favorable or adverse result alone whether an undertaking was just or unjust.

Never scorn the connection between deeds and their results

Don't read our lips. Read our record.

May each man be known, for the deeds he has done.

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

I know I am old-fashioned, but I don't want to bring out a fashion line, I don't want to bring out an album. I just want to do the work as best as I can, and if that effects change for somebody, then that is great. I don't want to change the world.