Douglas Conant Quotes

My biggest thing about being a role model is whatever I'm preaching, I'm practicing. If I'm telling people I'm boxing and then I'm eating a burger tonight, it's because I am. I'm not cheating and eating a salad and then being like, 'Yeah! Burgers are cool!'

You cannot say things one week and then behave differently.

That's something I've prided myself on: doing exactly what I tell people when I'm running.

I think it's so important to practice what you preach - whether you're into riding cows to work or eating a burger after boxing, just do what you're telling your fans you're doing because you have to be real with them because they look up to you.

I wonder what the world would be like if everybody walked their talk; if word was married with deed; promises delivered by action.

People shouldn't be interested in me. They should be interested in me if I'm not doing what I promise.

We must Think what we Say, and Mean what we Profess.

I don't like it when people don't act on their words.

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

Let deeds match words.

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.

Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.

Actions lie louder than words.

Leaders should not ask others to do what they will not do themselves.

Trust is not something that's given because you win an election; it's something you have to earn.

The one thing that even my staunchest opponents will admit is I'm a straight shooter and that I'm a man of my word.

I don't say one thing and do another.

Be true to what you said on paper.

I think that if one's role doesn't correspond to what one says, if one's life doesn't correspond to what one preaches, if one is not true to one's people, someone else will come as a substitute.

I don't forget what I used to do and so I can't justifiably say to my kid, "Don't you do that," when I used to do it myself.

I stand by what I write and follow through on what I write.

Live as a credible witness. If our actions don't line up with the message we're proclaiming, we risk losing our credibility.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

You shouldn't have one opinion when you're running and another when you're president.