Inaction Quotes

Take full responsibility of yourself, of your actions and of your inaction. It is only when you can truly and honestly face yourself that you can make any changes for the better. If you had a hand in it then you also have a hand in what you do going forward. Act on what you can do. Don't fret or stress over that which you can't control. Don't assign your responsibility as blame to others. Don't allow others to assign their responsibility as blame on to you. Be fair with yourself and others. Focus on positive momentum. Don't speak cruelly to yourself. Don't berate yourself. What is done is done. Focus instead on what you can do now, in this moment, moving forward. Empower yourself into change and betterment. It is up to you to advocate for your highest potential. That is the work you must do.

~ Akiroq Brost

Oh, the others will talk and plan and make oaths and promises, but there are precious few fuckers who will do.

~ Ian Mcguire

We are the sum of our actions, and of our inactions, yes, that is easy enough to understand. What comes harder is finding ourselves the sum of our emotions, which flicker, altered by experience, by the things we cannot bear to tell ourselves, by the trouble we accrue, the flattening and tamping down as we learn how not to be hurt. As we learn protection and the easiest means of protection.

~ Carrie Snyder

Change does not surface when you are not ready to be the catalyst. Your reaction matters, not your inaction.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.

~ Karen Thompson Walker

We have to accept that any action we take might promote an equal and opposite reaction that we do not want. We have to realize that even the most noble actions or most obviously correct course can have its dark side that we cannot control or reason our way out of. The fighter of the just war must understand that her actions will result in the deaths of other humans; many of whom may be innocent. The pacifist who refuses all war must realize that his inaction might likewise result in the deaths of the innocent. There are no actions without contradiction—and yet we must act, for not to act is also a contradictory action with both positive and negative effects.

~ John Hunter

Free yourself from the need to blame others. There are two reasons that you are where you are right now, action or inaction.

~ Steve Maraboli

There was a certain wisdom in doing little, when one was obliged to act in ignorance.

~ C.j. Cherryh

Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When you can't cure a disaster by argument, what is the use to argue?

~ Mark Twain

Like hatred, guilt can’t be locked in the silence of forgetting, without taking part of your soul with it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You are only earning the life you get when your inaction allows people to decide for you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

One of mankind’s greatest sins is inaction in the face of injustice.

~ John Kramer

Indiscretion is weighted heavily towards youth, inaction is weighted heavily towards old age.

~ Clifford Cohen

Count Ayakura’s abstraction persisted. He believed that only a vulgar mentality was willing to acknowledge the possibility of catastrophe. He felt that taking naps was much more beneficial than confronting catastrophes. However precipitous the future might seem, he learned from the game of kemari that the ball must always come down. There was no call for consternation. Grief and rage, along with other outbursts of passion, were mistakes easily committed by a mind lacking in refinement. And the Count was certainly not a man who lacked refinement.Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent in every decision. However grave the matter at hand might be, if one neglected it for long enough, the act of neglect itself would begin to affect the situation, and someone else would emerge as an ally. Such was Count Ayakura’s version of political theory.

~ Yukio Mishima

The simple act of sitting here sipping this cappuccino is its own testament to my commitment to living the writer’s life. Which is to say: doing nothing but doing it exceedingly well.

~ Sol Luckman

We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous… but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction.

~ Steve Maraboli

The Leadership Seduction of storytelling invites self-pity, exaggerates one's importance, and encourages inaction.

~ Catherine Robinson-Walker

Satan will tempt you with many things in life, but the most powerful is the temptation to be grateful for what you have, when it is not the best life God had to offer you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Not doing anything can be worse than doing the wrong thing.

~ Alexandra Potter

No one likes a person that should of all over the place.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You have only to rest in inaction and things will transform themselves. Smash your form and body, spit out hearing and eyesight, forget you are a thing among other things, and you may join in great unity with the deep and boundless.

~ Zhuangzi

I hesitate in everything, often without knowing why. How often I've sought – as my own version of the straight line, seeing it in my mind as the ideal straight line – the longest distance between two points. I've never had a knack for the active life. I've always taken wrong steps that no one else takes; I've always had to make an effort to do what comes naturally to other people. I've always wanted to achieve what others have achieved almost without wanting it. Between me and life there were always sheets of frosted glass that I couldn't tell were there by sight or by touch; I didn't live that life or that dimension. I was the daydream of what I wanted to be, and my dreaming began in my will: my goals were always the first fiction of what I never was.

~ Fernando Pessoa

Many times, the thought of fear itself is greater than what it is we fear.

~ Idowu Koyenikan

I know with unqualified certainty that I want to die. But I also know with equivalent certainty that I won't do anything about it. That I will only remain here and wait for death to indulge me.

~ Sara Baume

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

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

~ Douglas Horton

With the continued support of citizens who refuse to accept inaction at the expense of future generations, we will lead the world toward a sustainable future.

~ Diana Degette