Quotes About Inaction

You kept quiet... When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quiet.

Doing nothing is exhausting. I need to rest in case we do nothing again later.

With fierce hate harbored by a few and complacency displayed by the rest. All it takes for evil to take hold and flourish is for men and women of conscience to do nothing.

Whatever happens will be for the worse, and it is therefore in our interest that as little should happen as possible

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

If you are patient...and wait long enough...Nothing will happen

Action breeds confidence. Confidence breeds success. Success breed contentment & it is contentment in life which matters most. Inaction breeds fear, worry & despair. Don't limit yourself by your fear & inaction, Let us make action the mantra of your life. In the process you need not tell people about yourself. Let your action spread like a fragrance to entail your capability, inner beauty & strength.

To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

If I'm dying from anything, it's from indifference and red tape.

Humans were capable of so many amazing things, but too often they just sat making words, not doing anything.

The superintendent is afraid to make a decision. If he does nothing, he has nothing to explain to his superiors. No explanation is required if a man in management for doing nothing.

Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.

For poetry makes nothing happen.

It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water.

Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.

There are people who wring their hands and call it an abyss, but do nothing to fill it; there are also those who work to widen it, as if the scientist and literary man belong to two different human subspecies, reciprocally incomprehensible, fated to ignore each other and not apt to engage in cross-fertilization.

So we do nothing?" Claire asked. "We do the best nothing you've ever seen.

The things we regret most in life are the things we don't do.

by those who want to feel good about themselves without being put to the inconvenience of doing something.

They'd been here twenty seconds, and already nothing was happening.

But for the hours of the night, I was helpless; powerless to move as a dragonfly in amber.

Run , she told herself. Run, you idiot, run. But she didn't. She couldn't. She just... couldn't.