Quotes About Inaction

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.

To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing."—Elbert Hubbard

Don't use skepticism as a thinly veiled excuse for inaction or remaining in your comfort zone.

Measure the cost of inaction, realize the unlikelihood and repairability of most missteps, and develop the most important habit of those who excel and enjoy doing so: action.

Dejar de hacer algo por el mero hecho de que puedes hacerte daño es una razón nefasta para no actuar.

Valora el coste de no actuar,

If you telescope out 10 years and know with 100% certainty that it is a path of disappointment and regret, and if we define risk as "the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome," inaction is the greatest risk of all.

too much brooding, not enough doing.

For evil to succeed, all that is necessary is for good men to do nothing.

My dad is really just lazy. He has nothing, I feel, to offer this world.

One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang TsÇ" spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

Wovon man nicht handeln kann, darüber muss man faulenzen. Whereof one cannot act, thereof one must be lazy.

Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

Even a Mongolian idiot wouldn't dream of trying to go back 180 million years to change those tracks.

We have all read the golden rule and the Sermon on the Mount. Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world.

To permit ignorance is to empower it. To do nothing as our leaders proclaim absurdities is a crime of complacency

We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.

Edward didn't write any songs. For a long time he didn't do anything. He looked at her, of course. He didn't mind looking at her when she passed; looking brought its own special excitement with it. It was as if she brought her own light with her, because wherever she went, she glowed. Who could explain that? Edward liked to catch that glow once and a while.

Actions speak louder than words. And sometimes inaction speaks louder than both of them.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inactions, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.