Quotes About Inaction

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Tell me something. Why did I have to know the truth about Margot and know it with absolute certainty? Or rather why, knowing the truth, did I have to know more, prove more, see ? Does one need to know more, ever more and more, in order that one put off acting on it or maybe even not act at all?

Obama is learning very late that, for a superpower, inaction is a form of action. You can abdicate, but you really can't hide. History will find you. It has now found Obama.

Well what do you have an urge to do." "Nothing

You are going to die in front of dozens of witnesses, and none of them will do a thing to help you or avenge you. Because they know exactly what you know: The world is ending.

Where was the police? Where was anybody?

Bad things happen when good people do nothing.

He began to cross the street, thinking as he did that everyone was really very foolish to be screaming and yelling, to be afraid. After all, what could the dead do? They weren't moving, were not even speaking

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?

For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

Poor Ike. He'll say do this and do that and nothing at all will happen.

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly false too.

Evils that befall the world are not nearly so often caused by bad men as they are by good men who are silent when an opinion must be voiced.

In some ways I think every wrong turn I was to make . . . could be traced to moments of inaction, moments when I noticed things unfolding wrongly and failed to query or object.

the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.

All that's left for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.

When in dread, my rule was always to procrastinate.

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

The only time anyone has ever gotten into serious trouble was when he decided he could do nothing about something.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

The Republican Party stinks because all of the Republicans have accomplished nothing, and they talk about all of these issues and do nothing about it for a whole lifetime.

By 1993, the Stone Roses had become this huge, beautiful cruise ship just floating about in the middle of nowhere with no captain.