Words may show a man’s wit, but actions his meaning.

Source: Poor Richard’s Almanack by Benjamin Franklin; 1749.

Without action you aren’t going anywhere.

We can’t command our love, but we can our actions.

Source: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Too long have I confined myself in Miltonic isolation and meditation. It is clearly time for me to step boldly into our society, not in the boring, passive manner of the Myrna Minkoff school of social action, but with great style and zest.

Source: John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces.

Time is like a river. You cannot touch the same water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again.

The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.

Source: Quoted as Sandburg in Stop Whining! Start Selling!: Profit-Producing Strategies for Explosive Sales Results (2003) by Jeff Blackman, but without citation of original source; this is elsewhere attributed to Antoine de Saint Exupéry, but also with no original sources cited.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Source: Laozi in the ‘Tao Te Ching’; Chapter: 64, line 12. Original Quote in Chinese: 千里之行始於足下。