Inaction Quotes
54 quotes
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
"If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault."
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
"But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything."
"Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else."
"You are where you are right now because of the actions you've taken, or maybe, the inaction you've taken."
"One of mankind’s greatest sins is inaction in the face of injustice."
"The breeding ground of fear is procrastination and inaction. We overcome them not by preparation, but by taking action."
"Inaction only makes a task more daunting in your eye. Act quickly, before you overthink, get anxious or give up."
"Your life will be simplified when you choose inaction when no action is required and choose action when action is required!"
"Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act."
Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
"Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history."
"How can you follow your heart, unless you know why you have allowed it to be empty for so long and didn't have the courage to fix it?"
"Anything or everything can happen. You determine how good or bad they are"
"The situation on Earth today is too dire for us to act from habit—to reenact again and again the same kinds of solutions that brought us to our present extremity. Where does the wisdom to act in entirely new ways come from? It comes from nowhere, from the void; it comes from inaction. When we see it, we realize it was right in front of us all along. It is never far away; yet at the same time it is in a different universe—a different Story of the World."
Charles Eisenstein, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
"Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate."
"Often what people don't say or leave out, tells the real story."
"Never mistake the uncomfortable feeling of insecurity and the fear of the unknown with the Holy Ghost’s promptings. Sometimes those feelings are simply Satan keeping you stuck where you are because he knows you will have a half-life there. He knows that you will spend half of your life disconnected, discontented and convincing your mind of what its heart will never accept. He knows when you have settled, gave up and didn’t try. Inaction is his greatest weapon, while regret is his second."
"Fate is nothing but the past in the future. It is only an excuse for inaction."
"You may not have a clue of what lies ahead, but it’s better to act on life than simply let life act on you."
Nick Vujicic, Unstoppable: The Incredible Power of Faith in Action
"Investing is a simple process of taking into account the present value and future value. The other major factor to understand here, is what you lose as a result of inaction. Consider what you can gain and what you can lose in your decision."
"But I know I will do neither; nothing. I have all the time in the world, and yet, I can't be bothered."
"In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories."
"Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn't just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else’s word for it."
"Inaction is no longer acceptable."
"As compassionate beings, we cannot harm others, not even through our inaction."
Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
"Talk without the support of action means nothing."
"Stagnation is self-abdication."
"Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it."
"Those who claim to be on the side of good yet do nothing to fight evil are on the side of evil."
"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."
"If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all."
"Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it."
"Inaction is the worst action of human beings!"
"In action is the worst action of human beings!"
"Oh, the others will talk and plan and make oaths and promises, but there are precious few fuckers who will do."
"For any business decision, there are only two choices: action or inaction. The best option is to take action." - Ramesh Lohia and Jack T. Parker, consultants, iSixSigmaKaizen . In Quality Quotes, February 25, 2015, Knowledge Center, ASQ [ AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR QUALITY]"
"We are the sum of our actions, and of our inactions, yes, that is easy enough to understand. What comes harder is finding ourselves the sum of our emotions, which flicker, altered by experience, by the things we cannot bear to tell ourselves, by the trouble we accrue, the flattening and tamping down as we learn how not to be hurt. As we learn protection and the easiest means of protection."
"Change does not surface when you are not ready to be the catalyst. Your reaction matters, not your inaction."
"It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction."
"There was a certain wisdom in doing little, when one was obliged to act in ignorance."
"Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When you can't cure a disaster by argument, what is the use to argue?"
"Like hatred, guilt can’t be locked in the silence of forgetting, without taking part of your soul with it."
"You are only earning the life you get when your inaction allows people to decide for you."
"You have only to rest in inaction and things will transform themselves. Smash your form and body, spit out hearing and eyesight, forget you are a thing among other things, and you may join in great unity with the deep and boundless."
"With the continued support of citizens who refuse to accept inaction at the expense of future generations, we will lead the world toward a sustainable future."
"The simple act of sitting here sipping this cappuccino is its own testament to my commitment to living the writer’s life. Which is to say: doing nothing but doing it exceedingly well."
"We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous… but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction."
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
"The Leadership Seduction of storytelling invites self-pity, exaggerates one's importance, and encourages inaction."
Catherine Robinson-Walker, Leading Valiantly in Healthcare: Four Steps to Sustainable Success
"Not doing anything can be worse than doing the wrong thing."
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