Top 29 Quotes About Failing To Act
#1. Yet her father had taught her that failing to act in the face of human suffering is inhuman.
Corban Addison
#2. When you are the central character in a seemingly boiling pit of "busy-ness" the time will come when the pace of decline cannot be countered. You build yourself the circumstances of ultimate failure by failing to grow, by failing to act on your learnings.
Tony Curl
#4. Dream audaciously. Have the courage to fail forward. Act with urgency.
Phil Knight
#5. When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
Pablo Picasso
#6. And so whether it's failing to move forward on the Dream Act, failing to move forward on putting teachers back to work, failing to do all the things we could do right now to help the economy and middle class, this Congress is just saying no.
David Plouffe
#7. I think comics overall would be better. I think there's a tremendous potential to be tapped.
Bill Watterson
#9. Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.
Holbrook Jackson
#10. If we fail to act, we will end up with a different planet.
James Hansen
#11. Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.
Sri Aurobindo
#12. Warrington's aim's so pathetic I'd be more worried if he was aiming for the person next to me.
J.K. Rowling
#13. A voice from other epochs belongs in a graveyard of other epochs.
H.P. Lovecraft
#15. Do believe that if we fail to act in time, it will be the single biggest regret any of us has at the end of our lives.
Joseph J. Romm
#16. Like so many writers - I need to keep my butt in the chair.
Tina Gayle
#17. Shapers" are independent thinkers: curious, non-conforming, and rebellious. They practice brutal, nonhierarchical honesty. And they act in the face of risk, because their fear of not succeeding exceeds their fear of failing.
Adam M. Grant
#18. A personal sin may be one of commission (doing something that is prohibited) or a sin of omission (failing to do what is required of us). It may also express itself in either an act or attitude.
Thomas Nelson Publishers
#20. You must act as if it's impossible to fail.
Ashanti
#21. The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#22. Too many start up business fail simply because their owners continue to think and act like employees.
Michael LeBoeuf
#23. I'd lost my family to my years of failing as a songwriter. All I had were bills, child support, and grief. And I was about to get fired. It looked like I'd trashed my act. But there was something liberating about it. By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.
Kris Kristofferson
#24. Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
Tom Peters
#25. Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific other-directed way, then failing becomes impossible.
Wayne Dyer
#26. Failing to hold someone accountable is ultimately an act of selfishness.
Patrick Lencioni
#27. Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
Bernard Baruch
#28. I was born to fight devils and factions. It is my business to remove obstacles, to cut down thorns, to fill up quagmires and to open and make straight paths. If I must have some failing let me rather speak the truth with too great sincerity than once to act the hypocrite and conceal the truth.
Martin Luther
#29. I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If we can't act on knowledge, then we can't survive without ignorance.
Ruth Ozeki
