Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction. — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“But I know I will do neither; nothing. I have all the time in the world, and yet, I can't be bothered.” — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
You can't remain inactive in the face of injustice without, to some extent, being guilty of it. — Rae Foley Copy Share Image
You are where you are right now because of the actions you've taken, or maybe, the inaction you've taken. — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Our actions- and inaction- touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
If you cannot commit several hours per week to maintain the liberty that others afforded you, then you, by your inaction and… — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
I think this is the biggest lesson a president or any of us who has responsibility to govern have to learn: There… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldn’t be. We are our brothers’ keepers. There is right, and… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
My father was a local radio celebrity in the Albany area while I was growing up. That was his dream when he… — Jonathan Weeks Copy Share Image
A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but… — Gary Ryan Blair Copy Share Image
“Count Tolstoy preached inaction. It seems he had no need. We "inact" remarkably. Idleness, just that idleness Tolstoy dreamed of, a free,… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
In life and business, there are two cardinal sins, the first is to act precipitously without thought, and the second is to… — Carl Icahn Copy Share Image
Politicians must be simple and clear about how their ideas will serve the national cause. We can no longer use the complexity… — Alan Siegel Copy Share Image
“This is the last day of class, so I need to tell you that you are all activists. Each one of you… — Skye Warren Copy Share Image
The American independent cinema is as formulaic as Hollywood and one genre is what you might call the 'inaction movie'. The setting… — Philip French Copy Share Image
“That’s the problem with letting go—it’s more of an inaction than an action, and your brain just hates that, the same way… — Bill Burnett Copy Share Image
“You may not have a clue of what lies ahead, but it’s better to act on life than simply let life act… — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
In any bureaucracy, there's a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction. — Chris Fussell Copy Share Image
The only thing between you and success is your thinking. Defeatist thoughts are the mother of inaction. — Iimani David Copy Share Image
Acceptance does not mean inaction; acceptance is actually acknowledging the present situation. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Some people wait so long for their ship to come in, their pier collapses. — John Goddard Copy Share Image
The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation...even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind. — Leonardo Da Vinci Copy Share Image
We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know. — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
When you say ROI, do you mean return on investment or risk of inaction. — Paul Gillin Copy Share Image
To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable. — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
