Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.

You are what you do. It's about actions.

Watch what we do, instead of what we say.

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.

Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

What you are will show in what you do.

We want to watch what he does, not listen to what he says.

People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they are different.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

Whether someone signs something is not what's important. It's what they do and how they do it that matters.

Actions always speak louder than pre-match words.

The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask what they believe, just observe what they do.

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do. I used to say that I believed it was important to tell people about Jesus, but I never did. A friend kindly explained that if I do not introduce people to Jesus, then I don't believe Jesus is an important person. It doesn't matter what I say. We live for what we believe.

They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.

Handsome is as handsome does

Actions are remembered long after words are forgotten.

To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.

People can't see what's in your heart - they can only see what you do.

Virtue must shape itself in deed.

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

True faith manifests itself through our actions.

It is not so much what we know that is important, as what we are and what we do.