Top 84 Action Inaction Quotes
#1. Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several ideas with action or inaction respectively.
William James
#2. If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.
Laozi
#4. No choice recurs. We may get similar choices again, but never that exact one. Hesitation - inaction - is just as irrevocable as action. What the motorist, locked on the one-way road, is to space, we are to the fourth dimension: we truly pass this way but once.
Brian Christian
#5. Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.
Johnny Rich
#6. Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?
Patrick Henry
#7. A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and evidence. There is a reason we call science a discipline! Inferior minds bolt or build pyres to roast the witches in their midst!
Rick Yancey
#8. If you recognize that all of your inner hurts are caused by your own wrong actions or your own wrong reactions or your own wrong inaction, then you will stop hurting yourself.
Peace Pilgrim
#10. Drastic action can be costly, but it can be less expensive than continuing inaction.
Richard Neustadt
#11. A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
John Stuart Mill
#13. In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.
Ben Sherwood
#14. Sometimes the most heroic action you can take looks a lot like inaction to the rest of the world. Sometimes the hardest, longest walk is the one the white-hat takes offstage.
Karen Marie Moning
#15. For most people, it is better to lean towards action rather than inaction.
Max McKeown
#16. The consequences of successful action seemed almost as terrible as the consequences of inaction, and they could be more horrible for those who took the action. A bubble can easily be punctured. But to incise it with a needle so that it subsides gradually is a task of no small delicacy.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#17. Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction.
Jerry Brown
#18. Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it.
Criss Jami
#20. Take action and be brave Theodor for it is fear and inaction that kills.
Robert Radcliffe
#21. Every action (or inaction) involves a choice between what is more important and what is less important.
Brian Tracy
#22. Not complete inaction, which is an error, a confusion, a self-delusion, an impossibility, but action full and
free done without subjection to sense and passion, desireless and unattached works, are the first secret of perfection.
Sri Aurobindo
#23. Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#24. Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
Winston S. Churchill
#25. In the quest for comparative advantage, investment will flow towards those countries that can offer more output for fewer emissions. Inaction will cost jobs. Action will support jobs.
Julia Gillard
#26. Atrocitus: You believe fear to be the most powerful force in the universe? Fear is inaction. Fear is hiding away. Fear is cowering and begging. Rage is action. Rage is spilling blood. Sinestro: Rage is uncontrollable.
William Irwin
#27. Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years because you are afraid to be alive and tot ake the risk of expressing what you are. Expressing what you are is taking action.
Miguel Ruiz
#28. Investing is a simple process of taking into account the present value and future value. The other major factor to understand here, is what you lose as a result of inaction. Consider what you can gain and what you can lose in your decision.
J.R. Rim
#29. Action without knowledge can be worse than inaction
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#30. Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
Will Rogers
#31. Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.
Seth Godin
#32. Fruitless striving breeds less despair than inaction.
Mason Cooley
#33. Awareness isn't passive. It directly leads to action (or inaction).
Deepak Chopra
#36. A wall is a defense of a country that values inaction. But a wall imprisons the people of a country as much as it protects them. That's why Balthasar had us go this way. He wanted me to see the error in the Tao. One can't be free without action.
Christopher Moore
#37. Inaction breeds fear and doubt. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale Carnegie, writer and lecturer
Meg Jay
#38. Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.
Tony Blair
#39. It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.
Karen Thompson Walker
#40. Every action or perceived inaction shapes credibility.
Mindy Hall
#41. Change does not surface when you are not ready to be the catalyst. Your reaction matters, not your inaction.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#42. Obama is learning very late that, for a superpower, inaction is a form of action. You can abdicate, but you really can't hide. History will find you. It has now found Obama.
Charles Krauthammer
#43. There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance, and be receptive to any proselytizing ideology, however absurd and vicious, which promises vast action.
Eric Hoffer
#44. 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
#45. Oh, the others will talk and plan and make oaths and promises, but there are precious few fuckers who will do.
Ian McGuire
#46. 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs sparked a rising wave of consumer indignation. But ... it takes a major catastrophe to carry legal and enforcement action over the hump of lethargy and inaction ... Today, nearly forty years later, the situation is worse, not better.
John Fuller
#47. Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
Jerry Brown
#48. Every action or inaction has an impact-good or bad-upon our surroundings, and anything we do today will have an impact on the lives of our grandchildren.
Ted Turner
#50. The breeding ground of fear is procrastination and inaction. We overcome them not by preparation, but by taking action.
Debasish Mridha
#51. Not acting is a policy. Not acting is a choice. Not acting brings its own consequences and you have to weight cost of action against cost of inaction. And for many people across the political spectrum the cost of inaction is rising too high.
Liam Fox
#52. Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.
Charles J. Givens
#53. There is no such a rule that patience leads to salvation! Patience can lead to salvation or it can lead to disaster. Every inaction or every action is open to all the possibilities!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#54. 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 ... Underneath this rather antic form of action-as-inaction is the much more unsettling question whether anything is worth doing at all.
Mark Kingwell
#55. A bright man of conviction and action is a beacon to his country,
but a flash light to the scurrying of inaction, ego, and insecurity of lesser men.
Daniel S. Green
#56. We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#57. 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
#58. Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you
want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegia
#59. There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy
#60. We have to remind ourselves that we are not the transitory body, we are not the person who is having experiences, we are not affected by action or inaction.
Frederick Lenz
#63. 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
#64. One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men.
Bhagavad Gita
#65. Change quotes were meant to move us from inaction to action.
Jon Jones
#66. The master action to move forward, is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.
Bryant McGill
#67. Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn't just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else's word for it.
A.J. Darkholme
#68. Sometimes the only way to make something happen is to do nothing.
Marty Rubin
#69. You can betray someone with a word or an action. You can betray them with silence or inaction too. And in betraying that one person, you can betray a whole world.
Julie Bertagna
#70. We have complete choice as individuals: the only decisions we can take are our own. And yet so many species use the state of being an individual as an excuse for inaction, helplessness and irresponsibility.No situation is so overwhelming that action is pointless.
Targassat of Surang.
Karen Traviss
#71. Measure the cost of inaction, realize the unlikelihood and repairability of most missteps, and develop the most important habit of those who excel and enjoy doing so: action.
Timothy Ferriss
#72. Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
Norman Vincent Peale
#73. Dr. Neal Roese makes a fascinating distinction between two types of regret: regrets of action and regrets of inaction.
Mark Batterson
#74. Failure or success do not happen by accident, they are the compound interest of action or inaction.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#75. Defeat appears to me preferable to total Inaction.
John Adams
#76. You had decided to take the action, whatever it was." "Yes." "Yes. It involved perhaps a period of inaction." "Of comparative inaction - yes." "Of suspense, shall we say?" "Yes - of suspense, certainly." "Possibly
Dorothy L. Sayers
#77. The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens.
Sunday Adelaja
#78. Those who claim to be on the side of good yet do nothing to fight evil are on the side of evil.
Joyce Rachelle
#79. Contentment is never the outcome of fulfillment, of achievement, or of the possession of things; it is not born of action or inaction. It comes with the fullness of what is, not in the alteration of it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#80. Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#81. 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 every moment. You can choose understanding over anger, believing over nonbelieving, action over inaction. It gives meaning to every choice we make.
Yolanda King
#83. You are where you are right now because of the actions you've taken, or maybe, the inaction you've taken.
Steve Maraboli
#84. You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself - without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat.
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