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 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.

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.