Chin-Ning Chu Quotes

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Image isn't everything, It's what comes from your heart, and what you learn and what you say and how you act that means more than anything.

Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.

The only way you can know someone is through their actions - you can never know what's going on inside them.

Attitudes are more important than intelligence.

We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.

Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.

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

A character is as much about what you do as what you say.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.

A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

It's not what people do that matters, it's why they do it.

What you are will show in what you do.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

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

A great man’s actions are determined, if not foreordained, by his character.

People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.

Belief that influences behavior influences results.

Everybody who knows me knows how I get down.

Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.