Quotes About Inaction

To do nothing is an action too, with inevitable consequences, and so that is not a way to escape pain and suffering either.

The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.

What's wrong with this city! Like I said, no one's really in charge. Mayor and council are afraid to do anything in case the sorcerers don't like it. So they don't do anything. Someone should do something, Anya growled. She rowed on in silence for a while after that, thinking. It was easy to say someone should do something but rather more difficult to put it into practice.

Because there is no opportunity to act. It is always wise to talk a great deal, discussing what has been done and what may be done, when nothing can be done. All the great political movements of history were born in prisons.

I used to get a lot of death threats. After a while I realized that no one's gonna do anything or they would've.

Qué ocurriría si nos quedáramos aquí quietos sin movernos, sin hacer nada? ¿Acaso el tiempo se olvidaría de nosotros, pasaría de largo? Que bajen el telón. Que salgan los créditos. Fin.

Heaven is a dream of Disneyland for those unable to act here on Earth.

Every time she considered getting up and doing something, her limbs wouldn't move.

And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.

The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.

The actions and inactions of hundreds of millions of people and nearly 200 states, will affect what kind of world emerges in the time ahead.

There was once an old sailor my grandfather knew, Who had so many things which he wanted to do That, whenever he thought it was time to begin, He couldn't because of the state he was in.

Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.

The only time a dog gets complimented is when he doesn't do anything.

[The politicians] become nothingness and they don't do the job that they got elected to do. And it happens time and time again.

not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act.

he thought his inaction could be due to the fact that although the body of the Chief might be dead, his soul, spirit, whatever you called it, still enslaved him.

Don't confuse activity with action.

To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing. —ARISTOTLE

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. —THEODORE ROOSEVELT

he was doing nothing, thinking of nothing, looking at nothing; he was merely suffering.

Let me tell you, Lady Glencora, that a faineant government is not the worst government that England can have. It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.