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.

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.

Count Ayakura’s abstraction persisted. He believed that only a vulgar mentality was willing to acknowledge the possibility of catastrophe. He felt that taking naps was much more beneficial than confronting catastrophes. However precipitous the future...

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

If I can delay your action with my inaction, then I’ll gladly do nothing for the good of the no good.

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.

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.

In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which...

You have only to rest in inaction and things will transform themselves. Smash your form and body, spit out hearing and eyesight, forget you are a thing among other things, and you may join in...

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

Free yourself from the need to blame others. There are two reasons that you are where you are right now; action or inaction.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction

Is multilateralism nothing more than a dodge for simple inaction?

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.

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.