Quotes About Inaction

He never denied it. He never did anything. He never acted like either a nigger or a white man. That was it. That was what made the folks so mad.

For life is all too short, dear, And sorrow is all too great, To suffer our slow compassion That tarries until too late; And it isn't the thing you do, dear, It's the thing you leave undone Which gives you a bit of a heartache At the setting of the sun.

Remember the movements that don't look like moving.

Studies of the elderly show that people regret not what they did but what they didn't do.

But many have to look on in silence at what distresses them.

Do you remember back when you felt you could actually do something to make the world better?" "You're talking to the wrong man. I work for central government, remember? Actually doing something is the mistake we're trained to avoid.

Sometimes it's more terrible and more stupid to sit, paralyzed, as events slip past you. A certain kind of guardian angel must watch over fools as they rush in.

But the silence of those who said nothing, nothing at all, was terrible. It was the silence of those who knew they were all done for.

laurig, shy of making decisions and happy to procrastinate.

Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

Cowardice is knowing what you should do and then not doing it. Confucius

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses it purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Irons rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Doing nothing is very hard to do–you never know when you're finished.

We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.

Count Tolstoy preached inaction. It seems he had no need. We "inact" remarkably. Idleness, just that idleness Tolstoy dreamed of, a free, conscious idling that despises labour, this is one of the chief characteristics of our time.

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk.

The American people abhor a vacuum.

Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.

He shook his head, looked around carefully and then lowered his voice. "Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then—and this is the important bit—do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies." "Thanks

The safest course was actually the simplest – do nothing at all, and hope everything turns out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefit of simplicity, and a long tradition.