Inaction Quotes
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.
I think it is important for people to understand that there are real serious economic costs and real serious economic damages associated with inaction on climate change.
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.
Drastic action can be costly, but it can be less expensive than continuing inaction.
Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.
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.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
The breeding ground of fear is procrastination and inaction. We overcome them not by preparation, but by taking action.
You are where you are right now because of the actions you've taken, or maybe, the inaction you've taken.
Inaction only makes a task more daunting in your eye. Act quickly, before you overthink, get anxious or give up.
Your life will be simplified when you choose inaction when no action is required and choose action when action is required!
Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.
How can you follow your heart, unless you know why you have allowed it to be empty for so long and didn't have the courage to fix it?
Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.
Fate is nothing but the past in the future. It is only an excuse for inaction.
You may not have a clue of what lies ahead, but it’s better to act on life than simply let life act on you.
Inaction is no longer acceptable.
As compassionate beings, we cannot harm others, not even through our inaction.
Those who claim to be on the side of good yet do nothing to fight evil are on the side of evil.
Change does not surface when you are not ready to be the catalyst. Your reaction matters, not your inaction.
There was a certain wisdom in doing little, when one was obliged to act in ignorance.
Like hatred, guilt can’t be locked in the silence of forgetting, without taking part of your soul with it.
You are only earning the life you get when your inaction allows people to decide for you.
The simple act of sitting here sipping this cappuccino is its own testament to my commitment to living the writer’s life. Which is to say: doing nothing but doing it exceedingly well.
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.
The Leadership Seduction of storytelling invites self-pity, exaggerates one's importance, and encourages inaction.
Satan will tempt you with many things in life, but the most powerful is the temptation to be grateful for what you have, when it is not the best life God had to offer you.
Many times, the thought of fear itself is greater than what it is we fear.
I know with unqualified certainty that I want to die. But I also know with equivalent certainty that I won't do anything about it. That I will only remain here and wait for death to indulge me.