Seth Godin Quotes

Words are powerful, but action rules.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

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

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

Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.

Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action.

Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech

The problem is we are left only with empathy - which is critical, if it can be developed - without substantive manifestations of that empathy. It's one thing to attain it intellectually, but it's another thing to do something about it.

Words without action mean nothing. I’ll show you.

Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind

Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had meaning outside quotation marks. English was full of these empty words--"friend" and "real" and "story" and "change"--words that had been shucked of their meanings and reduced to husks. Some, like "identity" and "search" and "cloud," had clearly been drained of life by their Web usage. With others, the reasons were more complex; how had "American" become an ironic term? How had "democracy" come to be used in an arch, mocking way?

When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche.

You can talk all day long, but if you don't do something, it's a waste.

No being can be what he is unless he is putting his essence into action in his field.

Words and works eat not at one table.

True love requires action. We can speak of love all day long, we can write notes or poems that proclaim it, sing songs that praise it, and preach sermons that encourage it but until we manifest that love in action, our words are nothing but sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.

Good words do not last long unless they amount to something.

Talk and action are two different things.

The human being who acts is the human being who lives.

Create, artist, do not talk.

Aliveness doesn't happen in silence. Aliveness doesn't happen in repression. Aliveness happens in action.