Inaction Quotes · Page 5

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

— Saul Bellow

If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all.

— Tim Ferriss

Our actions - and inaction - touch people we may never know and never meet across the globe.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

— Confucius

Is multilateralism nothing more than a dodge for simple inaction?

— Elliott Abrams

Inaction will always have a disproportionate impact on those who are the most disadvantaged.

— Leana S. Wen

Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.

— Jose Rizal

To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality

— Bill Mollison

“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inactions, and in either case he is…

— John Stuart Mill

“The simple act of sitting here sipping this cappuccino is its own testament to my commitment to living the writer’s life. Which…

— Sol Luckman

the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the…

— Sigrid Undset

There is no such a rule that patience leads to salvation! Patience can lead to salvation or it can lead to disaster.…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous… but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination,…

— Steve Maraboli

I think it is important for people to understand that there are real serious economic costs and real serious economic damages associated…

— Naomi Oreskes

I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed. Inaction, no falsifying dream Between my hooked head and hooked feet:…

— Ted Hughes

“I know with unqualified certainty that I want to die. But I also know with equivalent certainty that I won't do anything…

— Sara Baume

One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power ... If someone has a creative gift and out…

— Marie-Louise von Franz

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you…

— Thomas Watson

Always trust your plan if you believe it was thought well. Do not let the fear of the uncertain paralyze you and…

— Anonymous

“Inaction is a luxury, one that many take for granted (and take pills to deal with). Action comes from hardship and necessity,…

— Kyle Eschenroeder

I know in my heart the dream will be realized. I choose to believe. And choosing is a powerful thing. It's available…

— Yolanda King

Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the…

— Anonymous

“I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to…

— Martin Luther King Jr

Lacan , Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated…

— Camille Paglia

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

— Meister Eckhart

The master action, to move forward is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.

— Anonymous

There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere.

— Robert Zoellick

Silence, indifference and inaction were Hitler's principal allies.

— Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

— Charles J. Givens

Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

— Madeleine M. Kunin

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.

— Winston Churchill

To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible.

— Ernest Holmes

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— Louise Fitzhugh

The one who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is a wise person.

— Kavinder Kanwar

We need to give thought, but we also need to take action. You need to dream without just being a dreamer.

— Jim Rohn

My mother always told me that inaction is not an option. And neither is going it alone.

— Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.

— Martha Graham