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The only thing between you and success is your thinking. Defeatist thoughts are the mother of inaction. — Iimani David

Defeat appears to me preferable to total Inaction. — John Adams

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all. — Chuck Schumer

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. — Joseph Chilton Pearce

When in doubt chicken out. — Robin Jones Gunn

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else. — Tennessee Williams

Drastic action can be costly, but it can be less expensive than continuing inaction. — Richard Neustadt

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

Free yourself from the need to blame others. There are two reasons that you are where you are right now; action or inaction. — Steve Maraboli

If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering. — Laozi

Stagnation is self-abdication. — Ryan Talbot

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? — Vincent Van Gogh

Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future. — L. Ron Hubbard

Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate. — Johnny Rich

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

No one likes a person that "should of" all over the place. — Shannon L. Alder

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

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind. — Leonardo Da Vinci

If a branch is too rigid, it will break. Resist, and you will perish. Know how to yield, and you will survive. — Liezi

Failure is not the opposite of success, inaction is. — Rob Liano

Many people have reasons and excuses for inaction, not the reasons for actions; or they neglect them — Keerthi Singhe

It's when the 'international community' expresses 'concern' about your 'situation' that your situation is well and truly fucked. — Michael D. Weiss

A present moment in time, is defined by the observation of our actions, as much as it is undefined by the intent of our inaction. — Vincent De Villeperdue

Who reflects too much will accomplish little. — Friedrich Schiller

We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. — Howard Zinn

Sometimes the only way to make something happen is to do nothing. — Marty Rubin

Awareness isn't passive. It directly leads to action (or inaction). — Deepak Chopra

Like hatred, guilt can't be locked in the silence of forgetting, without taking part of your soul with it. — Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes procrastination is an action, not inaction. — Jacquelyn Frank

Fate is nothing but the past in the future. It is only an excuse for inaction. — Omid Banyasad

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity. — Barack Obama

The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens. — Sunday Adelaja

In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life. — Ben Sherwood

The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action. — Jerry Brown

Action always beats inaction. — T. Harv Eker

I never worry about action, but only inaction. — Winston Churchill

Not doing anything can be worse than doing the wrong thing. — Alexandra Potter

A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction. — Alan Lightman

When you say ROI, do you mean return on investment or risk of inaction. — Paul Gillin

No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise. — Mark Twain

Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing. — Dave Freudenthal

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. — Theodore Roosevelt

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. — Albert Camus

One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men. — Bhagavad Gita

Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting. — Seth Godin

Even non-change is imperceivable change, because inaction will slowly change you from what you could have been, to what you never will be. — Bryant McGill

A robot may do nothing that, to its knowledge, will harm a human being; nor, through inaction, knowingly allow a human being to come to harm. — Isaac Asimov

You are only earning the life you get when your inaction allows people to decide for you. — Shannon L. Alder

To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction. — Fernando Pessoa

It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction. — Karen Thompson Walker

You speculate on the luxury of wearing out a whole existence in bed, like an oyster in its shell, content with the sluggish ecstasy of inaction. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Change does not surface when you are not ready to be the catalyst. Your reaction matters, not your inaction. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? — Patrick Henry

Inaction counted as a choice. — Dean Koontz

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

Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction. — Jerry Brown

Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger. — Silius Italicus

Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty. — William Feather

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

There are costs and risks to a program of action, but they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. — John F. Kennedy

Those who claim to be on the side of good yet do nothing to fight evil are on the side of evil. — Joyce Rachelle

Idealism + Inaction = Depression — Oli Anderson

Surrender is not a weakness, or state of inaction, but rather a powerful state of pure energy; the energy of becoming your true purpose. — Bryant H. McGill

Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice. — Benjamin Cardozo

Call it not patience, Gaunt; it is despair: — William Shakespeare

Acceptance does not mean inaction; acceptance is actually acknowledging the present situation. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect. — Leonardo Da Vinci

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault. — Orson Scott Card

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror. — Bill Kristol

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

I failed and faltered many times, but I can look back without regret because I was never burdened with the paralysis of fear and inaction. — Diana Nyad

Action without knowledge can be worse than inaction — Me

So let's accept what must be accepted, without letting our acceptance justify inaction. Don't — Eric Greitens

We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly. — Benjamin Franklin

Do precedes done.
No precedes none. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction — Freya Stark

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

Action always beats inaction. These — Robert T. Kiyosaki

We must create our own world or we will die from inaction — Robert Greene

Imperfect action is always better than perfect inaction! — Pablo Pasqualino

Failure or success do not happen by accident, they are the compound interest of action or inaction. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

When escape was impractical and inaction unreasonable, attack was always preferable. — Tom Wood

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

Don't fear failure, fear inaction. — Debasish Mridha

If you want a creative organization, inaction is the worst kind of failure. — Robert I. Sutton

Fruitless striving breeds less despair than inaction. — Mason Cooley

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 to non-arms. — Colin Powell

Knowledge and wisdom comes from interaction-- not from inaction. — Debasish Mridha

Every action (or inaction) involves a choice between what is more important and what is less important. — Brian Tracy

Complexity should be your excuse for inaction. — Claire North

All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all. — Allan Frewin Jones

If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all. — Jesse Ball

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything. — Theodore Roosevelt

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without he heroic mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It often takes more courage to be a passenger than a driver. — E.L. Konigsburg

Inaction is no longer acceptable. — Eric Lowitt