Inaction Quotes
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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
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
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
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 destroyingthat is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
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
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
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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