Some people wait so long for their ship to come in, their pier collapses. — John Goddard Copy Share Image
The inactivity of a conqueror betrays the loss of strength and blood . . . — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Boredom exists, as Frankl (1955) argued, so that “we will escape inactivity and do justice to the meaning of our life” (p. 87).” — Dr. Brian Ogawa Copy Share Image
We need to give thought, but we also need to take action. You need to dream without just being a dreamer. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
“That level of responsibility drastically conflicts with my belief in self-preservation by inactivity.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
We've got great flexibility and a certain discipline in terms of not doing some foolish thing just to be active - discipline… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
If it is in the Bible, it is so. It's not even to be prayed about. It's to be received and acted… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
“How much the inactivity of kashayas (i.e. anger, pride, deceit, and greed), there is that much activity of samadhi (state of inner… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at… — John Randolph of Roanoke Copy Share Image
I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever.… — Olympia Snowe Copy Share Image
...those who sit at their work and are therefore called 'chair workers,' such as cobblers and tailors, suffer from their own particular… — Bernardino Ramazzini Copy Share Image
Healing happens between the notes. I had to allow the space and not be afraid, and to know that things happen in… — Paul Horn Copy Share Image
[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All warfare is based on deception. Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity. When near, make it appear that you are… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When you're a boxer, there is a lot of downtime and long periods of inactivity. — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate! — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
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