Quotes About Inaction

Make no choice, and you have chosen. Failure to decide, because you lack the right, is itself a decision, First Councilor. In abstaining, you vote.

The man who does nothing also takes a risk.

Sometimes," Catelyn said slowly, "the best thing you can do is nothing.

Sometimes, the best thing you can do is nothing. Catelyn

Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.

A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it.

A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon — it won't work and you can't fire it.

Kay?ts?zl?k dili geçersiz k?l?yor,iÅŸaretleri anla??lmaz hale getiriyor.Sab?rl?s?n ama beklemiyorsun, özgürsün ama seçmiyorsun,müsaitsin ama hiçbir ÅŸey seni harekete geçirmiyor. Hiçbir ÅŸey istemiyor,hiçbir ÅŸey talep etmiyor, hiçbir ÅŸeyi dayatm?yorsun.Hiç dinlemeden duyuyor,hiç bakmadan görüyorsun.

They laboriously do nothing.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

It is not alone what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere.

When I sit here and mope and don't do anything and can't do anything, then I actually feel the time slipping away from me. Hours and weeks and months rush past with nothing in them, and I can't nail them to the spot with a piece of work.

A tired life breeds tired decisions, sometimes none at all.

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man's, because even if I was against the war, I didn't do enough to stop it.

He who cannot dance says the stage is not ready

She had been hedging her bets now for years, making no decision at all rather than make a bad one. But that, in itself, was a decision, she realized, and this was where it was headed all along. Directly above

She bent her chin to her chest. She mumbled something I did not catch. It sounded like, "Shame on us all for not having stopped it.

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 you can do is nothing.

After spending three or four years interacting with the Bush administration, I realized they were not taking any actions to deal with climate change. So, I decided to give one talk, and then it snowballed into another talk and eventually to even protesting and getting arrested.

When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes.

The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.