However many holy words you read,However many you speak,What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done.

This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed