Inaction Quotes

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

~ Jim Butcher

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

~ Tennessee Williams

Children understood at a very young age that doing nothing was an expression of power. Doing nothing was a choice swollen with omnipotence. It was, in fact, godly.And this, she now realized, was the reason why the gods did nothing. Proof of their omniscience. After all, to act was to announce awful limitations, for it revealed that chance acted first, the accidents were just that--events beyond the will of the gods--and all they could do in answer was to attempt to remedy the consequences, to alter natural ends. To act, then, was an admission of fallibility.

~ Steven Erikson

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

The breeding ground of fear is procrastination and inaction. We overcome them not by preparation, but by taking action.

~ Debasish Mridha

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

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.

~ Orson Scott Card

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

~ Steve Maraboli

Inaction only makes a task more daunting in your eye. Act quickly, before you overthink, get anxious or give up.

~ Avina Celeste

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

~ Howard Zinn

As long as [man] does not convert it into action, it does not matter how much he thinks about this new repentance... Wallow in it... Write a book about it; that is often an excellent way of sterilising the seeds which [Heavenly Father] plants in a human soul... Do anything but act. No amount of piety in his imagination and affections will harm [the cause of evil] if [it is kept] out of his will... The more often he feels without acting, the less he will ever be able to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

~ C.s. Lewis

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

~ Winston S. Churchill

How can you follow your heart, unless you know why you have allowed it to be empty for so long and didn't have the courage to fix it?

~ Shannon L. Alder

The situation on Earth today is too dire for us to act from habit—to reenact again and again the same kinds of solutions that brought us to our present extremity. Where does the wisdom to act in entirely new ways come from? It comes from nowhere, from the void; it comes from inaction. When we see it, we realize it was right in front of us all along. It is never far away; yet at the same time it is in a different universe—a different Story of the World.

~ Charles Eisenstein

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

~ Vincent Van Gogh

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

~ Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

~ Johnny Rich

Not long ago, I learned that if I let other people tell me how God was supposed to work in my life I would be dead. If I would have given into someone else’s version of God then I would have done nothing to improve my situation. The notion that “if it was meant to be, it will be”, is a pacifying, yet harmful quote, that many spiritualists use to soften the blow of anger. God is not passive. He is relentless, and he will build you through fire. He will put in your heart a need for answers. The intensity of what bothers your soul is often his voice trying to take you from the limited vision of mankind to the full view of the best life he would like to offer you. He is above any pastor, any bishop, any prophet, any church, any cleverly crafted sermon or multi-meaning verse. He is the master of his craft and the author of your forever. Inner peace is only found through action. Fear may darken the trail, but the light of peace stands at the end of such a journey ----waiting with truth.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Often what people don't say or leave out, tells the real story.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Never mistake the uncomfortable feeling of insecurity and the fear of the unknown with the Holy Ghost’s promptings. Sometimes those feelings are simply Satan keeping you stuck where you are because he knows you will have a half-life there. He knows that you will spend half of your life disconnected, discontented and convincing your mind of what its heart will never accept. He knows when you have settled, gave up and didn’t try. Inaction is his greatest weapon, while regret is his second.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change what the sane will not. This is the paradox of philosophers---trying to understand mass delusion among great people that have faith and knowledge, yet they can’t graduate from their institutions of religious theology to apply the knowledge they have gained for the shifting of Zion---- from words to action; from comfort to uncomfortable; from self serving to self giving; from competition to supporting; to tradition to unity; from bias to acceptance; from me to us.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Fate is nothing but the past in the future. It is only an excuse for inaction.

~ Omid Banyasad

You may not have a clue of what lies ahead, but it’s better to act on life than simply let life act on you.

~ Nick Vujicic

Investing is a simple process of taking into account the present value and future value. The other major factor to understand here, is what you lose as a result of inaction. Consider what you can gain and what you can lose in your decision.

~ J.r. Rim

But I know I will do neither; nothing. I have all the time in the world, and yet, I can't be bothered.

~ Sara Baume

In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.

~ George Eliot

Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn't just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else’s word for it.

~ A.j. Darkholme

You don't need to sit on a throne before you have the chance to dream, you don't have to feel fat meat in-between your molars to become a strategic dreamer. You can be a dreamer once you can think, dreams are germinate from imaginations, and survive through actions! Indecision weakens dreams, inaction kills them!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Inaction is no longer acceptable.

~ Eric Lowitt

As compassionate beings, we cannot harm others, not even through our inaction.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Talk without the support of action means nothing.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Stagnation is self-abdication.

~ Ryan Talbot

Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Those who claim to be on the side of good yet do nothing to fight evil are on the side of evil.

~ Joyce Rachelle

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

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

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.

~ Jesse Ball

Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it.

~ Criss Jami