We injure ourselves by wishing; continous inaction cripples the soul.

Most failures are one-time costs. Most regrets are recurring costs. The pain of inaction stings longer than the pain of incorrect action.

I hesitate in everything, often without knowing why. How often I’ve sought – as my own version of the straight line, seeing it in my mind as the ideal straight line – the longest distance...

Call it not patience, Gaunt; it is despair:

It’s when the ‘international community’ expresses ‘concern’ about your ‘situation’ that your situation is well and truly fucked.

You don’t need to sit on a throne before you have the chance to dream; you don’t have to feel fat meat in-between your molars to become a strategic dreamer. You can be a dreamer...

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

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

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?

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

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

Great goals are never scored by not kicking the ball

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live...

We have to accept that any action we take might promote an equal and opposite reaction that we do not want. We have to realize that even the most noble actions or most obviously correct...

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.

Even non-change is imperceivable change, because inaction will slowly change you from what you could have been, to what you never will be.

If you try and lose then it isn’t your fault. But if you don’t try and we lose, then it’s all your fault.

Intentions alone amount to nought. It’s in action, not inaction that we can become all we can be

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”[The Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1995: Hearing before the Subcommittee on...

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.

if it was meant to be, it will be”, is a pacifying, yet harmful quote, that many spiritualists use to soften the blow of anger. God is not passive. He is relentless, and he will...

Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn’t just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else’s word for...

You won’t skid if you stay in a rut.

Captivity can’t be overcome with inactivity

Stagnation is self-abdication.

If he acts, if he doesn’t, it’s meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.

You are only earning the life you get when your inaction allows people to decide for you.

People can sort of put it off, and it’s not confronting you day-to-day in an immediate sort of way. The consequence of inaction can be enormous, but I think it’s one of those issues where...

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Anything or everything can happen. You determine how good or bad they are

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When you can’t cure a disaster by argument, what is the use to argue?

Often what people don’t say or leave out, tells the real story.

The Leadership Seduction of storytelling invites self-pity, exaggerates one’s importance, and encourages inaction.

Further, the preliminary report falsely implies inaction by DHS and FEMA before landfall. In fact, the clear record shows that state officials expressed satisfaction with the federal government’s asset pre-positioning and other pre-hurricane assistance during...

Inaction is no longer acceptable.

Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.

The last shall not become the first if the last is lagging behind.

Like hatred, guilt can’t be locked in the silence of forgetting, without taking part of your soul with it.

There was a certain wisdom in doing little, when one was obliged to act in ignorance.

As compassionate beings, we cannot harm others, not even through our inaction.

I got fat, and I decided to do something about it, so I got fatter.

You are where you are right now because of the actions you’ve taken, or maybe, the inaction you’ve taken.

Do precedes done.No precedes none.

No one likes a person that “should of” all over the place.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features...

A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. [The First Law of Robotics]

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Fate is nothing but the past in the future. It is only an excuse for inaction.