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Quotes About Inaction

If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.
~ David Foster Wallace
It is easier to look the other way. But if you do, terrible things can happen.
~ Eve Bunting
Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience.
~ Rory Vaden
What happens if I do nothing?
~ Robert Breault
There is no such a rule that patience leads to salvation! Patience can lead to salvation or it can lead to disaster. Every inaction or every action is open to all the possibilities!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
It's pathetic how a man can stand by and do nothing as a whole nation cleans out the garbage and makes itself great"-Hans Junior
~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
~ Edmund Burke
When you're silent, your silence condones it. Thus, whatever you believe in goes down the drain.
~ Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso
Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can't possibly act on.
~ Stefan Molyneux
Don't fear failure, fear inaction.
~ Debasish Mridha
Doing nothing is even worse than doing the wrong thing.
~ Michelle Templet
If you witness evil men committing evil deeds and do nothing, what does that make you?
~ K.L. Toth
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
~ John le Carre
In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.
~ Max Frisch
The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.
~ Craig Venter
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
Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
~ Woodrow Wilson
Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.
~ William Whitelaw
Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution.
~ Fanny Burney
Inaction creates nothing. Action creates success.
~ Stephen Richards
Procrastination and fear are close cousins.
~ S. B. Sebrick
Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
~ Elie Wiesel
Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.
~ H. H. Asquith