Quotes About Inaction

Only God sees the sparrow fall, but even God doesn't do anything about it.

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

It's funny how you want to do a thing and never do it.

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort. There

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him.

which she makes no move to clean up, I'm not sure what

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.

I make little distinction between those who commit evil and those who stand by and do nothing.

As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.

People who live in fear tend to do a powerful lot of nothing.

All that is necessary for the triumph of Evil is for the Good men to do nothing.

You are where you are right now because of the actions you've taken, or maybe, the inaction you've taken.

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

In doing nothing men learn to do evil.

Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine ? that is, activity ? which could solve it, is seen as odious. Archery? It is too cold, and besides, the butts need re-covering; the rats have been at the straw. Music? To hear it is tedious; to compose it, too taxing. And so on. Of all the afflictions, boredom is ultimately the most unmanning. Eventually, it transforms you into a great nothing who does nothing ? a cousin to sloth and a brother to melancholy.

The Congress ran off and left everything just as I expected they would do and now they are trying to blame me because they did nothing. I just don't believe people can be fooled that easily.

Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.

The 'do nothing everything will be all right' default plan is determined by the IRS and government.

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

...hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him.

Freedom doesn't become 'lost' through abuse; freedom is lost through our failure to exercise it.