Abigail Adams Quotes

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

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

They say, and do not.

Saying is one thing and doing is another.

Talk and action are two different things.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

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.

There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.

Rather judge a person by his actions than by his words; because many act badly and speak splendidly.

Talk is cheap if it doesn't motivate action.

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

Words divorced from action supporting them are meaningless and hypocritical.

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Deed, not words shall speak me.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

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

Saying and doing are two things.

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

We cannot have another experience like we've had in my freshman class, of people saying one thing and doing another.

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

People don't always do what they say they're going to do.