Inaction Quotes

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

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

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.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

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.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.

Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted;

the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

We so often don't realize what our action and our inaction does to people we think we will never see and never know.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing.

It was lights, camera, inaction.

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault.

But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

In this context, I believe it is an imperative for the new President to select and install his team as quickly as possible, and this does not imply that he must or should appoint members of the 'other' party to his Cabinet, which could contribute to inaction and inefficiency.

The master action to move forward, is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.