actions speak
Behavior reveals truth
Actions speak is a shortened form of the proverb "actions speak louder than words," meaning that what people do reveals more about their intentions than what they say.
The truncated version functions as a knowing reference: I don't care what he promised—actions speak.
It implies the full saying without stating it.
- deedsActions or legal titles
- wordsUnits of language
- louderGreater in volume
- behaviorManner of conducting oneself
- conductManner of behaving
walk the walk · demonstrate · prove · show · walk · talk · evidence · true colors · character · truth · integrity · follow-through · promises · results · substance · genuine · authentic · trustworthy
- proverbsproverbs, sayings, maxims, adages, aphorisms
- consequencesconsequence, consequences, result, results, effect
- idiomstime flies, hit the sack, seize the day, ring a bell, break a leg
actions speakempty words
Insincere, meaningless talk
all talk · lip service · cheap talk · empty promises · talk is cheap
actions speakposturing
Insincere behavior for effect
virtue signaling · grandstanding · bloviating · sound and fury · inaction
actions speakhypocrisy
Pretense of virtue
insincerity · duplicity · pretense · posturing · virtue signaling
action, actions, acts, acted, acting, actor, actors, actress, actresses