If you quantify the cost of inaction, you precipitate…

It won't do you a bit of good to know everything if you don't do anything with it.

— Louise Fitzhugh

Heavy as they are, the costs of action must be weighed against the price of inaction. If Saddam defies the world and we fail…

— William J. Clinton

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

— Anonymous

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

— Douglas Brinkley

There are times when the most practical thing is to lie down.

— Saul Bellow

If the politics of inaction and delay that have triumphed in this country continues for another decade, then Planetary Purgatory in the likely future…

— Joseph J. Romm

“It's when the 'international community' expresses 'concern' about your 'situation' that your situation is well and truly fucked.”

— Michael D. Weiss

Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that…

— Robert Greene

Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react. Unconscious reactions…

— Jack Kornfield

Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of…

— Anthony Albanese

First, climate change is the greatest long-term threat faced by humanity. It could cause more human and financial suffering than the two world wars…

— David Miliband

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

— Bhagavad Gita

I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields…

— John F. Kerry

Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.

— Rupert Murdoch

“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.”

— Theodore Roosevelt