Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Saying is one thing and doing is another.

TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most.

Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day

In the real world, words don't automatically translate into deeds.

A man can preach no better than he prays.

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

I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.

Saying and doing are two things.

Watch what we do, instead of what we say.

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

It's deeds we need, not words.

If a ruler of men wants to put an end to vice, he must examine the correspondence between form and name and look to see how what is said differs from what is done.

There's always going to be a gap between what you believe and what you actually do, regardless of what your background is.

What you do has far greater impact than what you say.

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

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.

I believe in deeds, not words.

You are what you do, not what you say.

Words are but holy as the deeds they cover.

Words pay no debts, give her deeds.

He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.

Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

What you do and what you say has consequence and impact. Impact is determined by the intention behind your words and the intention behind your deeds.