Quotes on Inaction

A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.

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

If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all.

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.

Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can only be taken as the result of animal spirits-a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities.

The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

We must create our own world or we will die from inaction

Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.

One of the greatest handicaps is to fear a mistake. You have stopped yourself. You have to move freely into the arena, not just to wait for the perfect situation, the perfect moment... If you have to make a mistake, it's better to make a mistake of action than one of inaction. If I had the opportunity again, I would take chances.

Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

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.