Quotes About Inaction

Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.

Galina: You want to control the world and everyone in it, but you can't. Let whatever this is - and it's likely nothing - play out... Anya: So we do nothing? Galina: Sometimes that's the only thing to do.

We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.

Less can be more. Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction. Athletes require rest and recovery time.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

We need to resist the urge to do something, regardless of whether or not the proposed action is effective.

The master action, to move forward is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.

That mania for doing things in private. Which meant, in practice, not doing anything at all. For what was there that one could do in private.

Our inner beliefs trigger failure before it happens. They sabotage lasting change by canceling its possibility. We employ these beliefs as articles of faith to justify our inaction and then wish away the result. I call them belief triggers.

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

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.

And so evil flourishes and spreads because decent people don't want to make a fuss.

Humans don't see what they don't want to see. No one wants to be put down. That's why people do nothing even when they do know something is happening.

Donald Trump doesn't believe in much, doesn't want to do much.

He had told himself that it was an act of courage to let her go, to give her the final decision. Courage and sacrifice. He no longer believed that. There was no sacrifice made in being abandoned. There was no courage in doing nothing.

Unfortunately, the hardest thing for people to understand is that maybe if you leave things alone, it'll be better than stepping in and trying to do something.

All he knows is that something stepped in front of him, blocking his way, until in time he gave up on things, he gave up studying engineering and he gave up on the idea of traveling. He sat down in his life. And there he remained.

I knew he was right. Not that I did anything about it.

their lands as a result of our actions (and inactions), our governments will build ever more high-tech fortresses and adopt even more draconian anti-immigration laws. And, in the name of

You can replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you can replace inaction with action, and you can form any habit you choose. Your thoughts are the only thing in life that you can completely control—if you choose to do so. You can control your thoughts to control your habits.