Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Saying and doing are two things.

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

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

Talk does not cook rice.

Promise little and do much.

Never promise more than you can perform.

Take the pledge and after you’re elected, do whatever you want.

It's one thing to make the speeches. It's another to make the tough decisions.

Watch what we do, instead of what we say.

Many speeches can be heard throughout the world, but one always has to wait for deeds

I will make the further pledge now that if I find that I cannot keep my pledges I will resign.

Talk is cheap. Actions speak.

Words are less important to me than deeds.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

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

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

I've been acting professionally since I was 15 years old, and after a while, you get really tired of people telling you one thing and then doing another.

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

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain and depends on a future day .. but if you refuse, you alienate people to a certainty and immediately.

You never say what you're not going to do.

Do after election as before election you said you would.

Deeds are fruits, words are leaves

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