Quotes About Inaction

One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

When I was 14, I saw someone getting their face and wrists slashed with a knife in a pub in Catford. Nobody lifted a finger. That's when I realised that violence wasn't funny. At all.

The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.

I guess we'll just sit around here and casually die, then.

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.

It's easier to stand on the sidelines, criticize, and say why you shouldn't do something. The sidelines are crowded. Get in the game.

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.

Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Many a false step was made by standing still.

Knowing what to do and not doing it is the same as not knowing what to do.

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.

When the silent majority opens its mouth, it is usually to yawn.

Dogs don't bark at parked cars.

The world is in the condition that it's in because the world is full of sleepwalkers.

We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still.

You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.

Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so.

A great chunk of our lives is wasted on thoughts that bring nothing. We all think about something but, in the end, we only close the day thinking a lot and doing nothing but little.

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

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.

For four or five generations it had been the rule of both houses that a young fellow should go to Columbia or Harvard, read law, and then lapse into more or less cultivated inaction.

Newland never seems to look ahead, Mrs. Welland once ventured to complain to her daughter; and May answered serenely: No; but you see it doesn't matter, because when there's nothing particular to do he reads a book.