Quotes About Inaction

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

While time is young, while prospects are favourable, while prizes inestimable may be gained, caution, hesitancy, half measures rule and fetter action.

There is always a strong case for doing nothing, especially for doing nothing yourself.

How hard to build. How easy to evacuate. How hard to capture. How easy to do nothing. How hard to achieve anything. War is action, energy & hazard. These sheep only want to browse among the daisies.

It's ridiculous what little the French do!

The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing.

I didn't do anything," Han complained, the refrain of his entire life.

Dippers' are those who dig in into different issues and make commentaries without actually doing anything to resolve issues.

He is not a man wedded to action, Boleyn, but rather a man who stands by, smirking and stroking his beard; he thinks he looks enigmatic, but instead he looks as if he's pleasuring himself.

Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters

Yet in my experience, when left to their own devices people will get up to one of two things: nothing much, and no good.

People like to talk more than they like to act. They like to sit there and complain and vent. Somehow they think that changes things, when it doesn't.

all it took for evil to flourish was for good men to stand by and do nothing?

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

It's really hard to do nothing totally.

This is what Ania will pay for: not only her inaction, but her self-deception, for narrating away evil while staring it in the face.

The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.

The way to be nothing is to do nothing.

Work begins when the fear of doing nothing at all finally trumps the terror of doing it badly.

A failure to act is a terrible, stunning legacy for any leader. But far worse when it is the president of the United States. And that's the point driven home by Romney's selection of Ryan, who dared to lead when Obama did not.

I want to stay in some era and remain there like a stupid idiot and see what happens when you try to pause time and not affect it. Not succeed. Not try to think ahead or think behind.

Sometimes when you are hearing what you do not want to be hearing then everything in your body stops to working and all you can be doing is looking because unless you are blind then your eye never stop looking. That is how I am looking because my mouth is not working enough for me to speak and even my leg are hardly working for me to move.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

Sometimes we catch them in jars for a minute before releasing them. Sometimes we wait too long to release them and find them dead. We know the names of the girls who keep the butterflies too long, and we have no idea what to do with this information.