Quotes About Action Vs Inaction

#1. There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#2. The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens.

Sunday Adelaja

#3. Those who claim to be on the side of good yet do nothing to fight evil are on the side of evil.

Joyce Rachelle

#4. 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

#5. Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#6. 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

#7. Do precedes done.
No precedes none.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#8. You are where you are right now because of the actions you've taken, or maybe, the inaction you've taken.

Steve Maraboli

#9. 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.

Anonymous

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Oh, the others will talk and plan and make oaths and promises, but there are precious few fuckers who will do.

Ian McGuire

#13. 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

#14. Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Jerry Brown

#15. 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

#16. Defeat appears to me preferable to total Inaction.

John Adams

#17. The breeding ground of fear is procrastination and inaction. We overcome them not by preparation, but by taking action.

Debasish Mridha

#18. 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

#19. Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Charles J. Givens

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

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

Jacqueline Novogratz

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

John F. Kennedy

#27. 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

#28. Action always beats inaction.

T. Harv Eker

#29. I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

Winston S. Churchill

#30. 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