Quotes About Inaction

Indeed, yes; — or you will be known to all posterity as the fainéant government." "Let me tell you, Lady Glencora, that a fainéant 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.

The indifference operates passively, but it operates.

Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

To avoid criticism: Say noting, do nothing, be nothing.

Actions have consequences. In actions have them. We set things in motion by what we don't do.

When you don't know what to do, do nothing.

here at last there was a fitting object for those remarkable powers which, like all special gifts, become irksome to their owner when they are not in use. That razor brain blunted and rusted with inaction.

My friend had no breakfast himself, for it was one of his peculiarities that in his more intense moments he would permit himself no food, and I have known him presume upon his iron strength until he has fainted from pure inanition. "At present I cannot spare energy and nerve force for digestion," he would say in answer to my medical remonstrance.

His pity for them had been overwhelming; but pity was not action.

Years later I would realize that this was one of the worlds great problems, that people often allow themselves not to think. They choose not to think, and that's how the whole world gets into trouble.

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

For evil to flourish it takes only a few good men to do nothing.

Et c'était simple de lui dire de s'asseoir ; quand on pense à tout ce qu'on pourrait faire et qu'on ne fait pas ! toutes les occasions qu'on laisse échapper ! on a pas l'idée, pas l'élan ; au lieu d'être ouvert on est fermé ; c'est ça le grand péché : le péché par omission.

The Gospels: God's perfection consists in non-intervention.

Sólo ha pasado una cosa importante durante los últimos tres días, y es que nada ha pasado.

Twaddle, rubbish, and gossip is what people want, not action....The secret of life is to chatter freely about all one wishes to do and how one is always being prevented--and then do nothing.

There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.

There's a deep-freeze of sorts for all good intentions - a place that you store your plans to make changes in your life when you know you're not going to make them at all.

People who complain about something that they cannot do anything about are as irritating as those who complain about something that they can do something about.

You are only earning the life you get when your inaction allows people to decide for you.

This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.

Take Action: Success is not guaranteed but inaction will guaranty failure.

My feet, " said Montag. "I can't move them. I feel so damn silly. My feet won't

David Bereit, Founder of Forty Days for Life, points out that any abortion clinic in America should have a sign in its window that reads "THIS ABORTION CLINIC IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE INACTION OF CHRISTIANS IN THIS COMMUNITY.