Quotes About Inaction

One does evil enough when one does nothing good.

To kill time, a committee meeting is the perfect weapon.

Well! well! It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose. But it's hard. Hard.

The believing we do something when we do nothing, is the first illusion of tobacco.

I'd tell my mother to, you know, go you-know-what herself and I would go help those children. They're in an orphanage and they've got family! That's sickening. What does John do? Nothing. His kids are in an orphanage... and he does nothing. ~ Michelle Jarvis

Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?

I am the prince of procrastination. It is my besetting sin. I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after

If we do not end war — war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

Conway said quietly, "If you'd had all the experiences I've had, you'd know that 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.

A wrong person is not always wrong because of their wrong actions, often they are wrong because of no actions.

With thee it was not as with many that will and would and wait and never do.

The idea of politics is just so uninteresting to me - I've never paid much attention to it. I don't believe things can really change. It doesn't matter who's president. Nothing really gets resolved. I don't know. I guess that's not the right attitude to take.

I came to the University of Chicago on the morning of January 2, 1932. I wasn't yet a graduate of high school for another few months. And that was about the low point of the Herbert Hoover/Andrew Mellon phase after October of 1929. That's quite a number of years to have inaction.

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

If you act as if nothing has happened, and if nothing more comes of it, you will indeed find that nothing has happened after all.

It is the ship at the wharf, not the ship at sea, that rots fastest;—the

Everybody cursed the Bolsheviks but nobody was prepared to do anything about them.

If I believe that, if I accept that, then I've got to sit back and watch while all the opportunities vanish, and then when I'm old enough it's too late.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. Albert Einstein

To him now, life seemed a shadow, day a white shadow; night, and death, and stillness, and inaction, this seemed like BEING. To be alive, to be urgent and insistent--that was NOT-TO-BE. The highest of all was to melt out into the darkness and sway there, identified with the great Being.