Inaction Quotes · Page 5

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

— Bill Kristol

The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Drastic action can be costly, but it can be less expensive than continuing inaction.

— Richard Neustadt

Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.

— David Brock

Stop making excuses for WHY you can't do it, and just do it.

— Sonya Parker

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

— John F. Kennedy

Most of our problems are because we act without thinking or we keep thinking without acting.

— Jeromy Shingongo

Every action (or inaction) involves a choice between what is more important and what is less important.

— Brian Tracy

“Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When you…

— Mark Twain

In the quest for comparative advantage, investment will flow towards those countries that can offer more output for fewer emissions. Inaction will…

— Julia Gillard

You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and…

— Marco Rubio

The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues…

— Michael Bloomberg

“Arjuna, you have control over your action alone, not the fruits of your action. So do not be drawn to expectation, or…

— Devdutt Pattanaik

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

“Inaction quickly consumes a lifetime. Be curious, be bold, pay close attention to the world in front of you. And start trying…

— Ben Falk

We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction. Because this country that God has…

— Marco Rubio

“Friend: We are here. Already here. Within. A train approaches a wall at a fatal rate of speed. You hold a switch…

— George Saunders

Do we pour $40 billion into grandiose Louisiana engineering projects or do we instead put up no trespassing- signs in the areas…

— Douglas Brinkley

There's real economic costs to climate change - So, Superstorm Sandy led to billions of dollars in damages. The fires out in…

— Naomi Oreskes

First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but…

— Martin Niemoller

As Albert Camus wrote, the doctor’s role is as a witness – to witness authentically the reality of humanity, and to speak…

— James Orbinski

The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to…

— Isaac Asimov

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the…

— Norman Vincent Peale

“Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every…

— don Miquel Ruiz

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

— Isaac Asimov

Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.

— Farley Mowat

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is…

— Anonymous

If I can delay your action with my inaction, then Ill gladly do nothing for the good of the no good.

— Jarod Kintz

it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

— Jim Butcher

Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.

— L. Ron Hubbard

“One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.”

— Bhagavad Gita

Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.

— Silius Italicus

Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience.

— Rory Vaden

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

— Jim Butcher

How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!

— Ann Radcliffe

Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

— Jef Raskin

“Many times, the thought of fear itself is greater than what it is we fear.”

— Idowu Koyenikan