Quotes About Inaction

Aos quinze anos, há até certa graça em ameaçar muito e não executar nada.

Não lia jornais. Achava que um jornal era a coisa mais inútil do mundo, depois da Câmara dos Deputados, das obras dos poetas e das missas. Não quer isto dizer que Soares fosse ateu em religião, política e poesia. Não. Soares era apenas indiferente. Olhava para todas as grandes coisas com a mesma cara com que via uma mulher feia. Podia vir a ser um grande perverso; até então era apenas uma grande inutilidade. (Luís Soares)

Our life is an odd mixture of different moments of action andinaction, work and rest.

Failure or success do not happen by accident, they are the compound interest of action or inaction.

Failure is not the opposite of success, inaction is.

The real problem is that most people fear failure, and thus take no action. They really they should be fearful of their thoughts that cause their failure to take action!

He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't.

And here it was 1988, and in Proxmire's words, the Congress had gone sound to sleep: 'We should take a special international prize for gross hypocrisy. The Senate resoundingly passes the ratification of the Genocide Treaty. We thereby tell the world that we recognize this terrible crime. Then what do we do about it? We do nothing about it. We speak loudly but carry not stick at all.

And here it was 1988, and in Proxmire's words, the Congress had gone sound to sleep: 'We should take a special international prize for gross hypocrisy. The Senate resoundingly passes the ratification of the Genocide Treaty. We thereby tell the world that we recognize this terrible crime. Then what do we do about it? We do nothing about it. We speak loudly but carry no stick at all.

Ellis had slept through the entire thing. That, or he was dead, but I saw no reason to check. If he was dead, he'd still be dead in the morning.

I just don't know, I said, my voice sounding bumby, not like mine, how do you help someone who doesn't want your help. What do you do when you can't do anything?

So things go on as before with those who think a great deal and effect nothing, and those who think nothing evidently doing it all...

Tako sve ide kao i prije: jedni mnogo misle a ništa ne u?ine, a drugi o?ito ne misle ništa dok sve to rade.

Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing.

The way you can tell there's democracy going on is that nothing gets done.

Revolutionaries - true revolutionaries - are aggressive, ruthless, and generally seize the main chance, as William Henry Drayton did when he saw that stump-speaking was getting him nowhere. But defenders of the status quo tend toward caution and legalisms and inaction until it is too late

The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.

God's nothing more than a twelve-year-old kid with an ant farm. He's always watching, but He's never gonna do anything.

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

It is one thing to stand on the comfortable ground of placid inaction and put forth words of cynical wisdom, and another to plunge into the work itself and through strenuous experience earn the right to express strong conclusions.

One's only real regret in life is the failure to act.

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

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

In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.