Bernhard Schlink Quotes

Actions lie louder than words.

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

Watch what we do, instead of what we say.

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

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

Nations are what their deeds are.

Talk is cheap. Actions speak.

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

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

You don't deserve words, Sky. You deserve actions.

What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.

It is not what you say or hope or wish or intend but only what you do that counts. Your choices tell you unerringly who you really are.

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

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

Speech is the mirror of action.

There is obviously a power and a truth in action that doesn't lie, which words easily can do.

If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.

Actions lie louder than words.

Deeds are fruits, words are leaves

When I was a kid, I got in trouble for lying a lot, and I had a teacher say, 'Instead of lying, write it down, because if you write it down, it's not a lie anymore; it's fiction.'

Words must be matched by action if change is to become lasting.

Speeches pass away, but acts remain.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do. I used to say that I believed it was important to tell people about Jesus, but I never did. A friend kindly explained that if I do not introduce people to Jesus, then I don't believe Jesus is an important person. It doesn't matter what I say. We live for what we believe.