Quotes About Inaction

Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.

When I try to portray to myself my heart's desire, nothing happens.

her fear of action was overtaken by her fear of inaction.

To know and not to act is not to know

Not making a decision was making a decision not to move. A decision to fail.

I don't want to get involved" has become our national motto. -Mike McIntyre

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. John F. Kennedy

Life went on whether a person participated in it or not.

He says to us: They don't really do anything. Then he adds: But of course there is not a lot for them to do.

But not making a decision is actually a decision. It's the decision to stay the same.

But not making a decision is actually a decision. It's the decision to stay the same. And staying the same when I know I need to change is a choice that carries consequences with it.

not making a decision is actually a decision. It's the decision to stay the same. And staying the same when I know I need to change is a choice that carries consequences with it.

For a hundred generations, I had walked the world drowsy and dull, idle and at my ease. I left no prints, I did no deeds. Even those who had loved me a little did not care to stay.

There are costs and risks to a program of action, but they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

What worse awareness is there than to know there would have been a better outcome if you'd never done anything at all?

When your job's to make sure nothing ever happens," he'd once heard, "you begin to see nothing happening

Financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated. Long-run salvation by men of business has never been highly regarded if it means disturbance of orderly life and convenience in the present. So inaction will be advocated in the present even though it means deep trouble in the future. Here, at least equally with Communism, lies the threat to Capitalism. It is what causes men who know that things are going quite wrong to say that things are fundamentally sound.

The consequences of successful action seemed almost as terrible as the consequences of inaction, and they could be more horrible for those who took the action. A bubble can easily be punctured. But to incise it with a needle so that it subsides gradually is a task of no small delicacy.

Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing

The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.

I'm the type of girl who always dreams about being free, but does nothing to move towards that goal.

And the gods would do nothing. Think of all the prayers they would get.

You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.

Top Stock brokers are able to plunder the investors money because of inaction by regulator SEBI's top directors year after year