Joseph Lowery Quotes

Talk is talk; action on the field is action on the field.

Words are the wings of actions.

Speech is the mirror of action.

It's deeds we need, not words.

Judge us not by the rhetoric; judge us by the results.

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

Deeds are fruits, words are leaves

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

Words do not convince me; I must have deeds.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

In the real world, words don't automatically translate into deeds.

In the end, what counts is what you do.

Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.

Success can be obviously a two way street.

Well done is better than well said.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

I like to work hard and see the results of my hard work.

Talking and eloquence are not the same.

Kennedy understood something that is not so obvious, and that is that words are more important than deeds. You can’t govern 300 million people—or 180 million when Kennedy was president—by doing things. You can only do it by rhetoric.

Leadership is not what you said on the Senate floor. It’s not what you’ve said. It’s what you’ve done.

There are the talkers and there are the doers.