Top 100 Quotes About Inaction
#1. Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?
Patrick Henry
#2. The master action to move forward, is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.
Bryant McGill
#3. It's really a whole new feeling when you realize you're in charge of your life, your thoughts, and your actions - or inaction.
Kaira Rouda
#4. If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all.
Tim Ferriss
#5. The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it ...
Barack Obama
#6. 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
#7. My father was a local radio celebrity in the Albany area while I was growing up. That was his dream when he was a boy. I learned from him that some dreams are attainable and the penalty for inaction is regret.
Jonathan Weeks
#8. Change quotes were meant to move us from inaction to action.
Jon Jones
#9. Awareness isn't passive. It directly leads to action (or inaction).
Deepak Chopra
#10. In this context, I believe it is an imperative for the new President to select and install his team as quickly as possible, and this does not imply that he must or should appoint members of the 'other' party to his Cabinet, which could contribute to inaction and inefficiency.
Richard V. Allen
#11. Every action (or inaction) involves a choice between what is more important and what is less important.
Brian Tracy
#12. The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
Meister Eckhart
#13. Take action and be brave Theodor for it is fear and inaction that kills.
Robert Radcliffe
#14. Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk.
Jeff Goodell
#16. We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous ... but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction.
Steve Maraboli
#17. The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction
Freya Stark
#18. You are only earning the life you get when your inaction allows people to decide for you.
Shannon L. Alder
#20. Many people have reasons and excuses for inaction, not the reasons for actions; or they neglect them
Keerthi Singhe
#21. Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without he heroic mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#22. Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction.
Jerry Brown
#24. Observing what is around us and registering errant impressions is a state not so much of passive inaction as of alert receptivity. Allowing ourselves to notice, to be open to our surroundings, is a way of awakening our curiosity in the world outside ourselves. The
Eva Hoffman
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. For most people, it is better to lean towards action rather than inaction.
Max McKeown
#28. 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
#29. Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#30. In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.
Ben Sherwood
#31. 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
#32. Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.
Jose Rizal
#33. But it was not real freedom, he realised. It was the freedom that comes from lack of choice and moreover, was the kind that only came with decisions delayed. It was a freedom of inaction.
Lavie Tidhar
#34. 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
#36. Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#37. 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
#38. Drastic action can be costly, but it can be less expensive than continuing inaction.
Richard Neustadt
#40. We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly.
Benjamin Franklin
#42. There are always consequences to actions that you take. There are consequences to inaction. And thinking through, asking the questions, "Well, then what happens? What comes next?" is critically important.
Chuck Hagel
#43. Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.
Rupert Murdoch
#44. If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy.
Robert Heilbroner
#45. Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
Chuck Schumer
#46. 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
#47. Here at last there was a fitting object for those remarkable powers which, like all special gifts, become irksome to their owner when they are not in use. That razor brain blunted and rusted with inaction.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#48. You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.
Marco Rubio
#49. 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
#50. To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible.
Ernest Holmes
#51. Looking back on their past decisions about whether to purchase experiences, 83 percent of people sided with Mark Twain, reporting that their biggest single regret was one of inaction, of passing up the chance to buy an experience when the opportunity came along.
Elizabeth Dunn
#52. Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect
Frantz Fanon
#53. 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
#54. Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting to die ... do everything you can even if today it is just one small thing. There are no excuses for inaction, despair, egotism, or petulance that matter to the animals.
Ashley Montagu
#55. If you want a creative organization, inaction is the worst kind of failure.
Robert I. Sutton
#56. And to those who would choose the safety of inaction over the danger of taking a stand, I have this to say:
You bloody cowards. May you have the world that you deserve.
Mira Grant
#57. When you say ROI, do you mean return on investment or risk of inaction.
Paul Gillin
#58. With the continued support of citizens who refuse to accept inaction at the expense of future generations, we will lead the world toward a sustainable future.
Diana DeGette
#59. When you fear to fail, you fear something that has not happened yet. You predict your own failure, and by inaction, lock yourself into it.
Robin Hobb
#61. Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.
Mary Shelley
#62. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.
Silius Italicus
#67. 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
#68. Knowledge and wisdom comes from interaction-- not from inaction.
Debasish Mridha
#69. To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality
Bill Mollison
#70. Action without knowledge can be worse than inaction
Me
#71. Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
Will Rogers
#72. Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.
Seth Godin
#73. Fruitless striving breeds less despair than inaction.
Mason Cooley
#74. 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
#75. Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws to perpetuate injustice through inaction.
Shirley Chisholm
#78. I failed and faltered many times, but I can look back without regret because I was never burdened with the paralysis of fear and inaction.
Diana Nyad
#79. The American independent cinema is as formulaic as Hollywood and one genre is what you might call the 'inaction movie'. The setting is invariably a decaying town in a regional backwater where a catalytic stranger or returning native meets up with a group of sad, eccentric outsiders.
Philip French
#80. So let's accept what must be accepted, without letting our acceptance justify inaction. Don't
Eric Greitens
#81. No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.
Mark Twain
#82. 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
#84. To him now, life seemed a shadow, day a white shadow; night, and death, and stillness, and inaction, this seemed like BEING. To be alive, to be urgent and insistent
that was NOT-TO-BE. The highest of all was to melt out into the darkness and sway there, identified with the great Being.
D.H. Lawrence
#85. The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.
Tim Holden
#86. If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.
Laozi
#87. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years because you are afraid to be alive and to take the risk of expressing what you are.
Miguel Ruiz
#88. Our actions - and inaction - touch people we may never know and never meet across the globe.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#90. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction. Because this country that God has blessed us with, it is worth fighting for.
Marco Rubio
#91. It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.
Karen Thompson Walker
#92. When escape was impractical and inaction unreasonable, attack was always preferable.
Tom Wood
#93. 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
#94. If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.
Colin Powell
#95. 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
#96. Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.
Tony Blair
#97. Change does not surface when you are not ready to be the catalyst. Your reaction matters, not your inaction.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#98. The pain of problems is a call to find solutions rather than a reason for unhappiness and inaction, so it's silly, pointless, and harmful to be upset at the problems and choices that come at you (though it's understandable).
Ray Dalio
#99. 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
