English
Pronunciation
Proverb
actions speak louder than words
- It is more effective to act directly than to speak of action.
- An individual's actions indicate their true sentiments more reliably than their claims do.
Antonyms
Translations
it is more effective to act than speak
- Arabic: الْأَعْمَال أَعْلَى صَوْتًا مِن الْكَلِمَات (al-ʔaʕmāl ʔaʕlā ṣawtan min al-kalimāt)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 行勝於言 / 行胜于言 (xíng shèng yú yán), 事實勝於雄辯 / 事实胜于雄辩 (zh) (shìshí shèng yú xióngbiàn)
- Dutch: geen woorden maar daden; daden zeggen meer dan woorden, niet lullen maar poetsen
- Finnish: teot puhuvat enemmän kuin sanat
- French: bien faire vaut mieux que bien dire (literally “doing well is better than talking well”)
- German: Taten statt Worte; Nägel mit Köpfen machen (de); Taten sagen mehr als Worte
- Hindi: काम बोलता है (kām boltā hai)
- Hungarian: a tett harsányabb a szónál, a tettek minden szónál ékesebben beszélnek
- Japanese: 不言実行 (ja) (ふげんじっこう, fugenjikkō)
- Korean: 후겐 실행 (hugen silhaeng)
- Latin: rēs, nōn verba, acta, non verba
- Polish: czyny mówią głośniej niż słowa
- Portuguese: ações falam mais alto que palavras
- Russian: не по слова́м су́дят, а по дела́м (ne po slovám súdjat, a po delám, literally “they judge not by words but by deeds”)
- Slovene: dejanja so močnejša od besed
- Spanish: obras son amores, que no buenas razones
- Turkish: lafla peynir gemisi yürümez, ayinesi iştir kişinin, lafa bakılmaz
- Vietnamese: hành động có giá trị hơn lời nói
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actions indicate true sentiments
See also
References
- “actions speak louder than words”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Gregory Y. Titelman, Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings, 1996, →ISBN, p. 2.