Quotes and Sayings about Inaction
"Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity."
- Gary Ryan Blair
(Related: Opportunity, Failure, Caution, 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."
- Gary Ryan Blair
(Related: Success, Opportunity, Failure, Goal, Caution, Inaction, Risk)
"Inaction may be the biggest form of action."
- Jerry Brown
(Related: Action, Inaction, May)
"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."
- Dale Carnegie
(Related: Home, Fear, Action, Courage, Confidence, Doubt, Inaction, Want)
"I never worry about action, but only inaction."
- Winston Churchill
(Related: Action, Inaction, Worry)
"The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake."
- Meister Eckhart
(Related: Mistake, Inaction)
"Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing."
- Dave Freudenthal
(Related: Inaction, May, Nothing)
"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."
- Bill Gates
(Related: Change, Inaction, Will, Years)
"It was lights, camera, inaction."
- Terry Gilliam
(Related: Inaction)
"Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction."
- Charles J. Givens
(Related: Action, Inaction, Past, Reason)
"Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Related: Nature, Development, Progress, Inaction)
"The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction."
- Tim Holden
(Related: Society, Citizenship, Consequences, Inaction, Indifference, Prejudice, Racism)
"Action cures fear, inaction creates terror."
- Douglas Horton
(Related: Fear, Action, Inaction, Terror)
"Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger."
- Silius Italicus
(Related: Experience, Danger, Inaction, Word)
"There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction."
- John F. Kennedy
(Related: Action, Inaction)
"While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction."
- Nicholas D. Kristof
(Related: Americans, Inaction, President)
"Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror."
- Bill Kristol
(Related: War, Fighting, Inaction, Poor, Respect, Terror)
"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."
- John Stuart Mill
(Related: Actions, Cause, Evil, Inaction, Injury, May)
"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."
- Norman Vincent Peale
(Related: Fear, Successful, Action, Cause, Confidence, Inaction, Result, Will)
"A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm."
- Jef Raskin
(Related: Work, Computer, Harm, Inaction)
"Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction."
- Will Rogers
(Related: Action, Inaction)
"Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all."
- Charles Schumer
(Related: Mistake, Inaction)
"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."
- Leonardo da Vinci
(Related: Inaction, Mind, Purity, Water)