Failure To Act Quotes

• Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

  Charles Kettering

  Motivational, Positive, Faith

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• The greatest failure of all is the failure to act when action is needed

  John Wooden

  Action, Needed

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• There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Risk, Action

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1964). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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  Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

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• Make a decision! Failure to act is often the biggest failure of all.

  John Wooden

  Positivity, Decision

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• The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

  Janette Turner Hospital

  Doe, Action, Futility

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• So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.

  Suze Orman

  Dream, Good Intentions, Financial

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• Live today. Remove all blame from your vocabulary. Catch yourself when you find yourself using your past history as a reason for your failure to act today, and instead say, 'I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.'

  Wayne Dyer

  Past, Vocabulary, Finding Yourself

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Dec 31, 2015

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• We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.

  Veronica Roth

  Fear, Believe, Preparation

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Trilogy”, p.45, HarperCollins UK

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• Restoring nature to its natural state is a cause beyond party and beyond factions. It has become a common cause of all the people of this country. It is a cause of particular concern to young Americans, because they more than we will reap the grim consequences of our failure to act on programs which are needed now if we are to prevent disaster later.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Country, Party, People

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• One's only real regret in life is the failure to act.

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock

  Regret, Real, Life Is

  Jane Stanton Hitchcock (2012). “Trick of the Eye: A Novel”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• Don't be afraid to fail. The greatest failure of all is failure to act when action is needed. Use the information that you've acquired in the past through the experiences you've had and act with self-control - but act.

  John Wooden

  Past, Self, Information

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• Don’t hide love. If you feel it, express it-not to demand that others love you back, but simply to live outwardly the best of what you feel inwardly. The worst that can happen to your heart is not rejection by another person but failure to act on the love you feel.

  Martha Beck

  Love You, Heart, Rejection

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• So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

  Barack Obama

  Military, America, Cost

  Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on Libya, National Defense University, Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 28, 2011.

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• ... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it ... the failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Mean, Turkeys

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “Letters: The days of Armageddon, 1909-1914”

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