Inaction Quotes

People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

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

Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.

Acceptance does not mean inaction; acceptance is actually acknowledging the present situation.

So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action.

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.

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.

To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible.

Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains.

The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.

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

Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it.

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

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.

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

Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

Cynicism does not cause inaction.

Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.

Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious.

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.

Action always beats inaction.

The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.

Silence, indifference and inaction were Hitler's principal allies.

Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction.

I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed. Inaction, no falsifying dream Between my hooked head and hooked feet: Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.

Not doing anything can be worse than doing the wrong thing.

In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.

To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality

Every action (or inaction) involves a choice between what is more important and what is less important.

The master action, to move forward is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.

Surrender is not a weakness, or state of inaction, but rather a powerful state of pure energy; the energy of becoming your true purpose.

I think this is the biggest lesson a president or any of us who has responsibility to govern have to learn: There are always consequences to actions that you take. There are consequences to inaction.

Inaction counted as a choice.

Awareness isn't passive. It directly leads to action (or inaction).

It often takes more courage to be a passenger than a driver.

To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.

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.

Signs of a poorly understood but treatable house fire requires action, not inaction.

Imperfect action beats perfect inaction every time.

Our actions - and inaction - touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet.

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

I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields that turn to desert...

Change quotes were meant to move us from inaction to action.

If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.

True prayer is not a prelude to inaction.

Nothing wilts faster than a laurel rested upon.