Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. Thoughts, readings and discourse on love are of value only as they present questions to be acted upon.

Our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action.

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

Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

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

Love is worthless unless it acts out, unless it's expressed in deed and behavior.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

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

Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.

What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.

There is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving.

It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles and drops.

The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.

Love is more than a word. It's a noun and a verb.

Love is proved by deeds; the more they cost us, the greater the proof of our love.

It takes us a long time to write a song that we all really like, so it makes sense that it would take a while for the listener to get there, too.

The world is filled with too many of us who are inclined to indicate our love with an announcement or declaration. True love is a process. True love requires personal action. Love must be continuing to be real. Love takes time.

Writing a song is a long road. Or it can be.

Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does not put them into practice.

The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.

I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge complicated thing. But it seems like every once in a while, two people get it figured out, two people get it right. And so I think the rest of us, we walk around daydreaming about what that might be like. To find that one great love, where all of a sudden everything that seemed to be so complicated, became simple. And everything that used to seem so wrong all of a sudden seemed right because you were with the person who made you feel fearless.

Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up.

I actually produced other people's vocals for a long time when I first signed my publishing deal and I had just sort of decided that I only wanted to be a writer. I would be in all of these writing sessions, and a lot of times my publisher would say, "You should get a demo singer to sing it because then it doesn't identify as a Solange song."