Inaction

Inaction Quotes

“If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and lose, then it's all your fault.”

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

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

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

“Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.”

“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.”

“Make voyages (trips, journeys). Attempt them. There's nothing else.”

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

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

“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”
“Many times, the thought of fear itself is greater than what it is we fear.”

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

“When in doubt chicken out (to decide at the last moment not to do something you said you would do, because you are afraid).”

“Stagnation is self-abdication (resign, give up).”

“I have met people who have ruined their entire lives because of procrastination. They were unaware of why they never took a step, but I could easily see their Progress Demon standing beside them.”

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

“Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.”

“Talk without the support of action means nothing.”

“You must never stay at the station where you feel unhappy! Unhappiness combined with inaction always creates deeper unhappiness! The solution is very simple: Leave the station; trust the motion because only motion will take you to the new stations!”

“Inaction is the worst action of human beings!”

“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.”

“Your life will be simplified when you choose inaction when no action is required and choose action when action is required!”

“People who adore [love and respect (someone) deeply] the noises of action can die of boredom with the silence of inaction!”

“Joy; Life's pure joy is in doing nothing, no wonder, we seldom experience it, for we are driven to do something or the other, all the time”

“When there is so much to be done, our “To do list” never see an action due to the confusion on where to start, we keep wasting time in making changes to the list and not working on the list, and there comes a time when confusion overpowers the intention to start.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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?”

“If a branch is too rigid, it will break. Resist, and you will perish. Know how to yield, and you will survive.”

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

“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.”

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

“Become a river and then nothing is needed. That’s what The Secret of the Golden Flower says: Achieve inaction through action, achieve effortlessness through effort. But first comes the effort, the action; it will melt you and then the river starts flowing. In that very flow it has reached the ocean.”

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

“The last shall not become the first if the last is lagging behind.”

“But it was not real freedom, he realised. It was the freedom that comes from lack of choice and moreover, was the kind that only came with decisions delayed. It was a freedom of inaction.”

“Even non-change is imperceivable change, because inaction will slowly change you from what you could have been, to what you never will be.”

“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.”

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

“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 (result), the flattening and tamping down (reducing the amount, level, size, or importance of something) as we learn how not to be hurt. As we learn protection and the easiest means of protection.”

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

“Searching for the best solution is by far the best excuse for

inaction.”

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

“The consequences of inaction are the things you must face as a result of doing nothing or not enough.”

“Indiscretion (miscalculation, carelessness) is weighted heavily towards youth; inaction is weighted heavily towards old age.”

“For any business decision, there are only two choices: action or inaction. The best option is to take action."

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

“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.”

“It's when the 'international community' expresses 'concern' about your 'situation' that your situation is well and truly screwed.”

“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.”

“Who reflects too much will accomplish little.”

“Dreams are germinate from imaginations; and survive through actions! Indecision weakens dreams; inaction kills them!”

“Inaction is no longer acceptable.”

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

“The Leadership Seduction (temptation) of storytelling invites self-pity, exaggerates one's importance, and encourages inaction.”