Inaction Quotes

156 quotes by 134 authors

I know in my heart the dream will be realized. I choose to believe. And choosing is a powerful thing. It's available to you at… — Yolanda King
Lack of orders is no excuse for inaction. — George S. Patton
Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made. And… — Alcibiades
Climate change has a very high procrastination penalty that just grows with each passing year of inaction - rather like what happens if you don't… — William H. Calvin
In order to align your life choices with your values, you will need to inquire about the effects of your actions (and inactions) on yourself… — Zoe Weil
We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know. — Jacqueline Novogratz
If the politics of inaction and delay that have triumphed in this country continues for another decade, then Planetary Purgatory in the likely future facing… — Joseph J. Romm
Change quotes were meant to move us from inaction to action. — Jon Jones
It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less. On, on, on for ever, without… — Charles Spurgeon
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 create… — Jack Kornfield
While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction — Nicholas D. Kristof
From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The… — Charles Caleb Colton
Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger. — Silius Italicus
In life and business, there are two cardinal sins, the first is to act precipitously without thought, and the second is to not act at… — Carl Icahn
The universe may be tenderly indifferent to our fate, but we shouldnâ€™t be. We are our brothersâ€™ keepers. There is right, and there is wrong.… — John Dufresne
If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all. — Tim Ferriss
A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm. — Jef Raskin
If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call… — Colin Powell
Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing. .… — Mark Kingwell
It is not necessary for a man to be actively bad in order to make a failure in life; simple inaction will accomplish it. Nature… — Unknown Author

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