Quotes About Inaction

How can I help change things if I sit by and do nothing?

She understood now, how you turned away until you couldn't. Until the pain of knowing and doing nothing was greater than the fear of what might come next.

I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.

something, but she slept on, unmoving. There was more – plenty more – that he could have said, but he knew that the time for saying it was long past.

As time passed, hundreds of Arabs streamed out from neighboring areas and the Old City with more guns, hand grenades, and Molotov cocktails. British soldiers watched from their post less than a hundred yards away and did nothing.

Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?

The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

Much of the stress you experience may be created by recognizing a problem and doing nothing about it.

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

Adventurers tend to prance about the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the humility of hanging idle.

If those who know why and how neglect to act, those who do not know will act, and the world will continue to flounder.

I was surrounded by people. A hundred men, some women, my brother, Ernesto. No one did anything as the man pulled my pants down. No one intervened—not even God—as

A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission.

He squirmed as though he was the one who'd killed Edwal and named Thorn a murderer. All he'd done was watch. Watch and do nothing.

Spectators of life are not those who will retain their liberties nor are they likely to contribute to their country's security.

There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.

Lots of people take the option of not activating their own life, of really letting it happen.

To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself.

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Son raros los hombres. Recién hice una pasada por el patio llevando café y estaban todos callados, mirándose los pies. Papá, Ernesto, mi marido, Manuel, Pedro y sus primos. Ocho hombres en completa inacción y absoluto silencio. Creo que si les hubiese preguntado: "¿En qué están pensando?", los ocho me habrían contestado: "En nada", y habrían sido sinceros.