Inaction Quotes
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The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.
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Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.
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If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.
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Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.
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Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.
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Every action (or inaction) involves a choice between what is more important and what is less important.
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Working people are bearing the brunt of the EPA's inaction.
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Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.
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Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.
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Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.
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There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere.
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All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all.
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True prayer is not a prelude to inaction.
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Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.
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No choice recurs. We may get similar choices again, but never that exact one. Hesitation—inaction—is just as irrevocable as action. What the motorist, locked on the one-way road, is to space, we are to the fourth dimension: we truly pass this way but once.
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In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.
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If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all.
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Our government should do everything it can to ensure the successful prosecution of those responsible for the murders of U.S. citizens abroad. It should provide resources as needed, and it should make it clear to the authorities in Belgrade that inaction does have repercussions on bilateral relations.
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The only way to create change in anyone`s psychology or belief system is to show them the consequences of their actions - or inaction.
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Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.
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People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.
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Imperfect action beats perfect inaction every time.
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Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
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Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.
