Quotes About Inaction

The only alternative seems to be doing nothing…and doing nothing, I find, rarely accomplishes anything

James had never imagined that the hardest thing he would ever do in his life was nothing at all.

Sometimes you have to close yourself up. Shut the portals into the places inside you that still know how to feel. Because there's just nothing you can do.

Every crime like this needs someone like me to look away and say nothing.

One does evil enough when one does nothing good.

The moment demanded action and all we had was paralysis.

Do you fear doing it? You haven't started feeling the effect of not doing it.

No consequence of right action is graver than the consequence of inaction.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Before laissez-faire there was wu wei. "Practise not doing and everything will fall into place," says the Tao Te Ching, Taoism's primer.

In my stories, there were always things happening: in my life, nothing would ever happen.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

I was too demoralized to stop it or to start anything new. I would lie around, unable to get myself back up and start generating new ideas.

People find it very difficult to act on what they know. To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

Hundreds of investors ask me questions each year about the dilemmas they confront. Their worst problem? Uncertainty. They are traumatized and become emotional or confused to the state of inaction. Even worse, they try to solve a short-term problem in a way that hurts them financially in the long run.

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

You are judged more by what you do passively than by what you do actively.

If one billion of you watch and do not intercede as one million of you assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one billion of you are a billion times guilty.

An assembly is extra slow in taking actions.

The wrong man is not always wrong because of his wrong actions, often he is wrong because of no actions.

The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.

The great philosopher, Aristotle had this to say in regards to criticism. "There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.

Apathy in general; people who are not standing up for what they believe in because somebody's got a louder mouth than them; it doesn't make any sense.