Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes

Whether someone signs something is not what's important. It's what they do and how they do it that matters.

We are not going to be able to convince people that our role in the world is a good one unless it is a good one.

I was no longer the man whose mistake could involve the world in war.

There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.

Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.

You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.

Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds.

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

People are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they are different.

Our geographical position wills it that we have Germany for a neighbor.

Grand strategies are not nearly so important as grand strategists like to think, because countries tend to be judged by their actions, not on their words…. History shows that grand strategies do not alter the trajectory of great power politics all that much.

Internationalism, properly understood, is not contact between states; nor is it contact between super-nationalists and cosmopolitans who have torn themselves loose from affiliation with their nation. It is at home neither round the green table of the diplomatists nor "above the melee" with the minority minds. True internationalism is contact between nations in their highest and best and most distinctive representatives and manifestations.

There must of course always be separate interests of different nations which their governments are bound to maintain, but there are also common interests in which all civilized nations share. These common interests arise from the interdependence of civilized peoples and they are a product of developing civilization.

The United States … has never been isolated, never can be isolated, and has no desire to be isolated. The people of the United States are not only ready but willing and desirous to help their fellow-men, especially those of western civilization, in any way that is possible.

I think words have consequences, and I think actions have consequences.

Talk is cheap. Actions speak.

Count the deed, not the thought.

Actions are remembered long after words are forgotten.

It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.

It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.

Actions lie louder than words.

It is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

I think it is important to help our country's image outside of Spain.