Inaction Quotes · Page 6

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

— Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

To do anything, it is first necessary to be doing nothing.

— Nancy Hale

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

— Dale Carnegie

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

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

— Jarod Kintz

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

— Charles J. Givens

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

— Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits

Action is greater than inaction. Perform therefore thy task in life. Even the life of the body could not be if there…

— Bhagavad Gita

“But it was not real freedom, he realised. It was the freedom that comes from lack of choice and moreover, was the…

— Lavie Tidhar

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

— Joseph J. Romm

The pain of problems is a call to find solutions rather than a reason for unhappiness and inaction, so it's silly, pointless,…

— Ray Dalio

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

— Robert Greene

“Even non-change is imperceivable change, because inaction will slowly change you from what you could have been, to what you never will…

— Bryant McGill

While we cannot accurately predict the course of climate change in the coming decades, the risks we run if we don't change…

— Steven Chu

Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him…

— Frantz Fanon

Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is…

— Walker Percy

Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do…

— Mark Kingwell

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

— William J. Clinton

The non-action of the wise man is not inaction. It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything. The sage is…

— Zhuangzi

“You must never stay at the station where you feel unhappy! Unhappiness combined with inaction always creates deeper unhappiness! The solution is…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

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

— Jack Kornfield

First, imagine taking the potentially regret - producing path of inaction. Then imagine what the very best outcome would be were you…

— Wayne Dyer

“Yesterday I was stupid, so I wanted to change the world. Today, I am more stupid, so I am changing the world.…

— Abhijit Naskar

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

— Winston Churchill

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

“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

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

— Ernest Holmes

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

— Kavinder Kanwar

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Ann Radcliffe

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

— Jim Butcher

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

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

— Jef Raskin

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

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

— Jarod Kintz