Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
-Elbert Hubbard

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
-Thomas Carlyle

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
-John Locke

Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.
-Henri Bergson

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Don't be called out on strikes. Go down swinging.
-Anonymous

Never mistake motion for action.
-Ernest Hemingway

Speak little, do much.
-Benjamin Franklin

He who hesitates is last.
-Mae West

I do what my Rice Krispies tell me to.
-Shannon Bender

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
-Leonardo Da Vinci

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
-from the wrapper of Dove Promises chocolate candy