Best Empty Words Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I can weave thousands of words into moving syntax and powerful prose. But if I lay the pen down at the close of the final sentence, and if in doing so I myself have not acted on the words that I have woven, it would have been better had I said nothing.”

Book:The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

“There is more said in silence than in a crowd of thousands.”

Silence Noise Nonsense Meaningless Crowd Empty Words

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Silence is the space that we create when all of the noise around us finally realizes that it hasn’t said anything, that it’s not going to say anything, but it can’t bring itself to shut up.”

Silence Stupid Empty Noise Nonsense Meaningless Void Shut Up Empty Words

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Kindness is not about words. It isn’t spoken. It is about action. Kindness is a deed.”

Compassion Kindness Random Acts Of Kindness Be Kind To Others Talk Is Cheap Empty Words True Kindness Words And Deeds Action Speak Louder Than Words Words Are Not Needed

Author:Anthon St. Maarten

“The true measure of a best friend is where they are when you “make” the biggest decision of your life, not where they were during the decision process.”

Action Understanding Empathy Loyalty Worried Best Friends Self Pity Showing Up Empty Words Showing Not About You Overlooking Anger Seeing A Person S Situation Total Support True Caring

Author:Shannon L. Alder

“Oh, the others will talk and plan and make oaths and promises, but there are precious few fuckers who will do.”

Action Inaction Empty Words

Book:The North Water

Source: The North Water

“My inference will be that you mean nothing at all. That you employ words to no manner or purpose without any design or signification whatsoever. And I leave it to you to consider how mere jargon should be treated.”

Philosophy Debate Empty Words Arguing Without Merit Speaking Without Knowledge

Book:Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

Source: Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

“If your actions don't live up to your words, you have nothing to say.”

Inspirational Action Inspirational Quotes Courage Words Inner Strength Actions Courage Quotes Doing The Right Thing Action Quotes Actions Speak Louder Than Words Actions Over Words Empty Words Empty Gestures Empty Gesture Say What You Mean

Author:DaShanne Stokes

“Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay with life? / What tho' your fame with all its thousand trumpets, / Sound o'er the sepulchres, will that awake / The sleeping dead.”

Spirit Sound Sleep Inspire Thousand Fame Glory Empty Vain Awake Immortal Honour Recalls Clay Trumpets Breathless Empty Words

Book:The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh: As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields

Source: The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh: As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields

“One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian point and hand embroidery and Irish crochet are to him mere empty words. Whereas a woman- whether she is interested in babies or microbes or husbands or poetry or servants or parallelograms or gardens or Plato or bridge- is fundamentally and always interested in clothes.”

Thinking Men Helping Hands Baby Husband Clothes Garden Empty Mere Bridges Servant Plato Daddy Microbes Embroidery Empty Words Parallelogram

Book:Daddy-Long-Legs

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs

“Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.”

Wind Illusion Empty Ridiculous Immortality Butterfly Chasing Empty Words

Author:Milan Kundera

“To-morrow it seemLike the empty words of a dreamRemembered on waking.”

Empty Waking Morrow Empty Words

Book:Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas

Source: Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas

“You must learn to follow privately the Lord's bidding: not to speak empty words, not to adorn yourself, always to obey authority, not to look at a woman with desire, not to be angry and much else.”

Looks Desire Speak Lord Authority Empty Angry Asceticism Bidding Empty Words

Book:Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth

Source: Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth

“Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.”

Literature Left Wind Communication Empty Unsaid Empty Words

Author:Homer

“Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.”

Way Life Conditions Intellectual Argument Empty Treasure Enthusiasm Excitement Sand Coins Magnificence Squandering Empty Words Flipping A Coin Excitement Of Life

Author:George Sand

“There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.”

Empty Remains Worn Worn Out Empty Words

Author:Martin Heidegger

“Empty words show an empty mind, and silence speaks most eloquently of all.”

Mind Shows Speak Silence Empty Silence Speaks Empty Mind Empty Words

Book:The Fire’s Stone

Source: The Fire’s Stone

“Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had meaning outside quotation marks. English was full of these empty words--"friend" and "real" and "story" and "change"--words that had been shucked of their meanings and reduced to husks. Some, like "identity" and "search" and "cloud," had clearly been drained of life by their Web usage. With others, the reasons were more complex; how had "American" become an ironic term? How had "democracy" come to be used in an arch, mocking way?”

Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad

“An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word is deprived of its dimension of action, reflection automatically suffers as well; and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism, into an alienated and alienating “blah.” It becomes an empty word, one which cannot denounce the world, for denunciation is impossible without a commitment to transform, and there is no transformation without action.”

“Empty words almost echo within themselves”

Empty Echoes Empty Words

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“And empty words are evil.”

Evil Empty Empty Words

Book:The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation

Source: The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation

“Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.”

Source: Poetical works

“Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word.”

Matter Character Liberty Empty Weight Fundamentals Empty Words

Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“You always have a choice. Don't ever imagine you don't. Whatever you do, it's a decision and you have to accept responsibility for it. That's when honor becomes more than empty words.”

Choices Decision Responsibility Accepting Imagine Honor Empty Empty Words

Author:Lynn Flewelling

“Chélan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reasoning correctly, and of not being put off by empty words, but he had neglected to tell him that this habit was a crime in the person of no importance, since every piece of logical reasoning is offensive.”

Persons Given Pieces Crime Habit Empty Importance Reasoning Logical Offensive Neglected Empty Words Logical Reasoning

Book:The Red and the Black

Source: The Red and the Black

“Promises are empty words if you're not keeping them.”

Ifs Promise Empty Empty Words

Author:Mike Ditka

“I hate pretty. It’s a very empty word. It gives a bad name to beauty.”

Giving Hate Names Empty I Hate Empty Words

Author:Oscar de la Renta

“We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.”

Ifs Revolution Empty Soldier Improving Slogans Empty Words

Author:Chiang Kai-shek