Do Nothing Quotes

#1. Goodness is not the absence of badness. You can do nothing wrong and still do nothing right. Those who simply run away from sin are half-Christians. Our calling is much higher than simply running away from what's wrong. We're called to chase lions.

Mark Batterson

#2. All that it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing

Amanda Hocking

#3. A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

John Galsworthy

#4. All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of us have an answer in our hands, in simply choosing to do nothing and go nowhere for a while.

Pico Iyer

#5. That is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.

Patricia Briggs

#6. It's hard to do nothing because you tend to do something and then you have to drop everything.

Jerry Seinfeld

#7. Aristotle once said, To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, and be nothing.

Dave Ramsey

#8. I want to be sure ... that nothing is done on these veterans. Is that understood? ... Is the word out? That they are not to touch em, they are not to do a thing? ... Get a hold of the district police; they're not to touch them, they're to do nothing: Just let em raise Hell.

Richard M. Nixon

#9. Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it.

Matthew Henry

#10. I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do ... nothing is guaranteed, but hopefully we got the mentality to play on the road, and we're starting to get our home thing back in order now-if we can do that we'll be just fine.

Karl Malone

#11. There were other times when she was so shattered by ideas that she could do nothing worth while; when they trampled over her like an army and she felt as if she were bleeding to death under them.

Willa Cather

#12. I will do nothing for 89 minutes, but score in the 90th.

George Weah

#13. Even if you do nothing, say nothing and be nothing, there will still be many who will criticise you. It is much better to be criticised for success than be condemned for failures because success rids you of the many miseries of life.

Awdhesh Singh

#14. To think that he can lie beside that furnace I stoked for him and do nothing but make water!

Henry Miller

#15. The world is not full of evil because of those who do wrong. It is full of evil because of those who do nothing.

Albert Einstein

#16. They view massive immigration as a massive infusion of potential voters for the Democratic Party, and therefore will do nothing, absolutely nothing to stop that flow of legal or illegal entrance into the country.

Tom Tancredo

#17. It often requires more strength and judgment to resist than to embrace an opportunity. It is better to do nothing than to do other than well.

Sydney Thompson Dobell

#18. The left claims that Republicans hate Hispanics, which is just the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard, and the right just claims all we need to do is close the borders and do nothing else, which is also ridiculous.

Raul Labrador

#19. As an adventurer ... I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end, you have to take calculated risks; otherwise you're going to sit in mothballs all day and do nothing.

Richard Branson

#20. Words alone mean nothing, because they can do nothing.

Marty Rubin

#21. So what? So we sit there and do nothing every day in case we have an accident? Is that really how to live?

Jojo Moyes

#22. I will piss on deadlines. I will forget I am married. I will do nothing but read, read, read when it's a Book Affair.

Lainey

#23. Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.

Edward Abbey

#24. Sophie don't do nothing Sophie don't want.

Thea Harrison

#25. I'd like to do things to make money to save myself but right now I can't do nothing. If they want to put me in jail, they can do that. It's kind of tough.

Manute Bol

#26. I like to work for a while, and then do nothing for some period.

Peter Boyle

#27. Most people can do nothing at all well

G.H. Hardy

#28. When I did Yoda, me and three other people worked our asses off, and I was sweating every single day, it was tough as hell. Now that it's CGI, 24 people work on Yoda, and I get all the credit
I do nothing.

Frank Oz

#29. If we do nothing ... and turn our backs now, in future generations, when rank corruption masquerades as libery, it will be upon our shoulders. True patriots will then ask why we who were there to witness our nation at the crossroads did nothing.

David Liss

#30. Imagine: you could say nothing, do nothing, eat nothing, touch nothing, love nothing without the other knowing.

Megan Mayhew Bergman

#31. Do nothing in a depressed mood, nor as one afflicted, nor as thinking that you are in misery, for no one compels you to that.

Epictetus

#32. Two ideas militate against our consciously contributing to a better world. The idea that we can do everything or the conclusion that we can do nothing to make this globe a better place to live are both temptations of the most insidious form. One leads to arrogance; the other to despair.

Joan D. Chittister

#33. Did Christians live according to their Religion, they would do nothing but what Truth, Righteousness, and Goodness do, according to their understanding and ability: and then one man would be a God unto another.

Benjamin Whichcote

#34. Sleeping is much safer than the nightmare I'm living.
When I sleep I feel nothing and I do nothing and I see nothing and nothing matters and no one cares. There's no one to hurt or disappoint or notice when I'm low and I don't need to face anyone not anyone in the world or not even myself.

Shannon Mullen

#35. Because sometimes, a man could do nothing about where he came from, he could only control where he went

Lora Leigh

#36. If you can do nothing else, do whatever is in your power to make the people in your life feel completely unashamed of who they are.

Sam Killermann

#37. Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

George Bernard Shaw

#38. To protect the innocent, to avoid being one of Burke's good men who do nothing, you have to accept permanent scars that cincture the heart and traumas of the mind that occasionally reopen to weep again.

Dean Koontz

#39. The trick is, when there is nothing to do, do nothing.

Warren Buffett

#40. I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.

Ice Cube

#41. Tranny will rise if we do nothing.

C.L. Williams

#42. A grape may become a raisin, and taste the sweeter for it, but even a raisin rot on the vine, if you do nothing for it.

E.J. Patten

#43. It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.

Bernard Hopkins

#44. People who shout so loud, my lords, do nothing; the only men I fear are silent men

Oscar Wilde

#45. To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.

Benjamin Disraeli

#46. Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned ?some accountants and solicitors with them.

Graham Taylor

#47. My job ... I do nothing, it pays nothing, but - you guessed it - it's better than nothing.

Amy Hempel

#48. I think when we don't know what to do it's wise to do nothing. Sit down quietly; quiet our hearts and minds and breathe deeply.

Maya Angelou

#49. The key is to wait. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing.

David Tepper

#50. A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.

Walt Whitman

#51. Those who do too much for their children will soon find they can do nothing with their children. So many children have been so much done for they are almost done in.

Neal A. Maxwell

#52. The ultimate cause of spiritual depression is unbelief. For if it were not for unbelief, even the devil could do nothing. It is because we listen to the devil instead of listening to God that we go down before him and fall before his attacks.

David Lloyd-Jones

#53. If you do nothing, nothing will get done and nothing will change.

Debasish Mridha

#54. Days go by when I do nothing but underline the damp edge of myself.

Mary Szybist

#55. Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss ... " He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#56. To do nothing is in everyone's power.

Samuel Johnson

#57. She smiles. "You know you can do nothing. What will be, will be. If there is a battle" - I gasp but her smile is steady - "if there is a battle, then either your husband will win, and your son will take the throne; or your brother will win and you will be sister to the king.

Philippa Gregory

#58. I know we live in a very sexist world, and a lot of boys do nothing except get in trouble, until one day they grow up and dominate every aspect of society. But girls, at least while they're still girls and perform well, seem to do everything better for a while. Seem to get the attention.

Meg Wolitzer

#59. If you do nothing long enough, something's bound to happen.

H. Jon Benjamin

#60. It is a mistake to do nothing just because you think you can only do a little.

Karen Duffy

#61. Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.

Simone Weil

#62. I have knowledge; I'm responsible. If I sit by and do nothing while I have the ability to change, to help, then I'm just as much a criminal as any. Power begets responsibility...You should know that.

Brandon R. Chinn

#63. To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.

Christoph Martin Wieland

#64. Whenever I have free time, I love to just lay in my bed and watch YouTube videos, watch movies. Just basically do nothing.

Bethany Mota

#65. As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'

Harriet Tubman

#66. Here is my theory: If smoking is really good, you should be able to smoke and do nothing else at the same time, really focusing all your attention on smoking and how it makes you feel.

Gudjon Bergmann

#67. They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

Socrates

#68. There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.

William Penn

#69. The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.

Daniel Kahneman

#70. Our real innermost concern was to get as much money and praise as possible. To gain that end we could do nothing except write books and papers.

Leo Tolstoy

#71. No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.

Claudius

#72. It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.

Winston Churchill

#73. Lincoln was equidistant from the heresy which makes a person believed that he can do nothing, and the opposite heresy which makes them suppose that he is the master of his own fate.

Elton Trueblood

#74. Growing up with my family gave me some of my best memories. I'd like to have a family of my own - slip away for a bit and do nothing but spend those early years with my children.

Katherine Jenkins

#75. God will do nothing but in answer to prayer.

John Wesley

#76. Evil will win if good people do nothing.

P.C. Cast

#77. If we do nothing, we still get to a post-carbon future, but it will be bleak. However, if we plan the transition, we can have a world that supports robust communities of healthy, creative people and ecosystems with millions of other species.

Richard Heinberg

#78. The true test of faith is how we treat those who can do nothing for us in return.

Dillon Burroughs

#79. I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand?

Peter Tosh

#80. Even choosing to do nothing is still making a choice.

Mark Batterson

#81. Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later. Do what you want to do, and with the people you love. Learn to appreciate time and make doing so a habit. And if you want to do nothing, then enjoy doing it well. Why do anything by half? Why live a life diluted? What's the use?

Carew Papritz

#82. We've done nothing to earn His love and can do nothing to forfeit it. His love in Christ is eternal and unconditional. Nothing can separate us from His love, as the apostle Paul put it so eloquently. Do we really believe what Paul says to us here?

Jerry Bridges

#83. The English social anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer, in his 1965 Death, Grief, and Mourning, had described this rejection of public mourning as a result of the increasing pressure of a new "ethical duty to enjoy oneself," a novel "imperative to do nothing which might diminish the enjoyment of others.

Joan Didion

#84. I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.

Abraham Lincoln

#85. Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the classical virtues can do nothing to offset the dearth of innovation that plagues the economy.

Edmund Phelps

#86. God's ways with us are all designed to establish in us this other principle, namely, that our work for Him springs out of our ministering to Him. I do not mean that we are going to do nothing; but the first thing for us must be the Lord Himself, not His work.

Watchman Nee

#87. You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.

Steve Ross

#88. Forgive me, Magnus.'
'I don't know if I can.'
'You must.'
Still looking into the distance, he said, 'You need my forgiveness?'
'No. I'm dead. You can do nothing for me. You need to forgive me so you can live.

Raymond E. Feist

#89. We have gotten to the point where everything the government does is counterproductive; the conclusion, of course, is that the government should do nothing at all, that is, should retire quickly from the monetary and economic scene and allow freedom and free markets to work.

Murray Rothbard

#90. No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time you spend fasting, no matter how much you sleep on a hard floor and eat ashes and sigh continually, if you do no good to others, you do nothing great.

John Chrysostom

#91. He was a victim of his own integrity, which forced him to do his best, even when he would have preferred to do nothing at all.

Irving Stone

#92. It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.

Gary Barlow

#93. We can do nothing without prayer.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#94. Since good intentions and sympathy for others often led people into trouble, the Chinese people had invented a new proverb that said, 'The more you do, the more trouble you have; the less you do, the less trouble you have. If you do nothing whatever, you will become a model citizen.

Nien Cheng

#95. If you do nothing but read your Bible, you will dry up; if you only pray, you will blow up; but if you read your Bible and pray, you will grow up.

R.T. Kendall

#96. To remain mysterious, say little and do nothing.

Mason Cooley

#97. In interviews, the first question I get in America is always: 'What do you do to stay young?' I do nothing. I don't think aging is a problem. What irritates me a little is growing fatter. It irritates me that if I eat what I want to eat, it shows.

Isabella Rossellini

#98. God can do something with those who see what they really are and who know their need of cleansing but can do nothing with the man who feels himself worthy.

Fulton J. Sheen

#99. Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can't do anything because they are just stupid people.

Mario Balotelli

#100. Ll that is necessary for evil to triumph
is for good men to do nothing. I supposed old Edmund Burke had meant to include women in that. And if he hadn't, well, screw him.

Rachel Caine