Matthew Henry Quotes

Saying is one thing and doing is another.

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

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

Words are less important to me than deeds.

I don't just preach; I put my money where my mouth is!

I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

Watch what we do, instead of what we say.

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

Talk is cheap. Actions speak.

I've learned enough times in life that saying something is completely different than acting upon it.

I wonder what the world would be like if everybody walked their talk; if word was married with deed; promises delivered by action.

It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.

Talk and action are two different things.

My dad told me something long before I was in politics, and when your dad gives you advice every single day, eventually one or two of the things stick in your mind. And he said, don't believe what people say, believe what they do.

Character is simply habit long continued.

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

When you left the house today, you had the intention of putting clothes on and you did. You didn't try to put your pants on today. You simply put them on. The same has to hold for all of our intentions. We don't try to be more loving partners. We make the intention, and we act on it.

We must Think what we Say, and Mean what we Profess.

I don't like it when people don't act on their words.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Deed, not words shall speak me.

Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.