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it's more effective to act than speak

Arabic: الْأَعْمَال أَعْلَى صَوْتًا مِن الْكَلِمَات ‎(al-ʾaʿmāl ʾaʿlā ṣawtan min al-kalimāt)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 行勝於言, 行胜于言 (xíng shèng yú yán), 事實勝於雄辯 (zh), 事实胜于雄辩 (zh) ‎(shìshí shèng yú xióngbiàn)
Dutch: daden klinken harder dan woorden, geen woorden maar daden
Finnish: : teot puhuvat enemmän kuin sanat (fi)
French: l'action a plus de poids que les mots (lit. the action is more than words)
German: Taten sagen mehr als Worte
Japanese: 不言実行 (ja) ‎(ふげんじっこう, fugenjikkō)
Korean: 후겐 실행 ‎(hugen silhaeng)

Gregory Y. Titelman, Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings, 1996, ISBN 0-679-44554-4, p. 2.