Quotes About Inaction

All talk, talk, talk - no action or results. Sad.

A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.

What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?

Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose only contributions to society are their complaints and moral exhibitionism.

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

So. Tell me. What do you think? Which is better? To take action and perhaps make a fatal mistake - or to take no action and die slowly anyway?

So this is what it is to be a failure. The chief characteristic may be silence: the phone doesn't ring, he isn't asked out, nothing new happens. For most of his adult life he has conceived of failure in the form of a spectacular catastrophe, only to recognize at last that it has in fact crept up on him imperceptibly through cowardly inaction.

So this is what it is to be a failure. The chief characteristic may be silence: the phone doesn't ring, he isn't asked out, nothing new happens. For must of his adult life he has conceived of failure in the form of a spectacular catastrophe, only to recognize, at last, that it has in fact crept up on him imperceptibly, through cowardly inaction.

Arjuna, you have control over your action alone, not the fruits of your action. So do not be drawn to expectation, or inaction.

Arjuna, you have control over your action alone, not the fruits of your action. So do not be drawn to expectation, or inaction.—Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 2, Verse 47 (paraphrased). Those who believe in karma do not blame. They do not judge. They accept that humans live in a sea of consequences, over which there is limited control. So they accept every moment as it is supposed to be. They act without expectation. This is nishkama karma.

The problem of climate change involves a fundamental failure of markets: those who damage others by emitting greenhouse gases generally do not pay. Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has ever seen. The evidence on the seriousness of the risks from inaction or delayed action is now overwhelming. We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century. The problem and the response must be a collaboration on a global scale.

Compassion without action is meaningless.

You do nothing, it becomes approval.

The toll of the "Mall shooting" was horrific, but not as bad as it could have been. Five dead and fourteen wounded. The aftermath was the usual—thoughts and prayers and talk about gun control and mental health and then absolutely nothing was done.

supine neglect

People often avoid making decisions out of fear of making a mistake. Actually the failure to make decisions is one of life's biggest mistakes.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

Will is based on activity, whim on passivity.

FaÅŸizm ve benzeri hareketler (ki, bunlar?n isimlerini onlar ortaya ç?k?p geliÅŸtikten sonra koyar?z ) ancak, hem ferdi ve hem de toplumsal hayat? etkileyen kararlar? verme noktas?nda yayg?n bir pasifliÄŸin olduÄŸu ve insanlar?n kat?l?mc? olmad??? toplumlarda yeÅŸerirler. (Hayat? Sevmek)

Amžina žmonijos scena: prievartos tarnai, j? auka, o greta - visada ir visais laikais - tre?ias, ži?rovas, kuris nepakelia rankos apginti auk? ir nebando jos išvaduoti, nes bijosi d?l sav?s. Ir kaip tik d?l to jam nuolatos gresia pavojus.

Dodd resigned himself to what he called "the delicate work of watching and carefully doing nothing.

Silence ensures that history repeats itself.

Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere.