Inaction Quotes - Page 2

• To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

  Ronald Reagan

  Regret, Political, Goes On

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• You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Motivational, Adventure, Positivity

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

  Gary Blair

  Opportunity, Risk, Stakes

  "Finding Your J Spot: Joy in Midlife and Beyond". Book by Peter Brill and David Debin, 2006.

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• It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

  Hugh Laurie

  Time, Procrastination, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Hugh Laurie from Aug 10, 2015

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• Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

  Douglas Horton

  Fear, Action, Terrorism

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• Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Confidence, Causes, Action

  Norman Vincent Peale (1996). “Power of the Plus Factor”, Ballantine Books

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• Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

  Bill Gates

  Inspiration, Acting, Action

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

  Charles Schumer

  Mistake

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• Lack of orders is no excuse for inaction.

  George S. Patton

  Order, No Excuses, Excuse

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• Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Doe, Literature, Impossible

  "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 28, www.gutenberg.org. 1852.

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• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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• Every action or inaction has an impact-good or bad-upon our surroundings, and anything we do today will have an impact on the lives of our grandchildren.

  Ted Turner

  Grandchildren, Impact, Today

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• First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I'm not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I'm not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was no one left to help me.

  Martin Niemoller

  Libertarian Party, Poetry, Catholic

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• Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Iron, Acting

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci" translated by Jean Paul Richter, 1888.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Safe, Action, Reputation

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• The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

  Freya Stark

  Mistake, Belief, Fear Of Failure

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.

  Harry S. Truman

  Perfect, Action, Imperfect

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• To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Simplicity, Lazy

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.996, Wordsworth Editions

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• Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

  Will Rogers

  Hard Work, Acting, Action

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• The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivation, Journey

  Twitter post from Jan 1, 2018

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• The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Business, Educational, Sleep

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Easyread Edition”, p.243, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power ... If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn't use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That's why we often diagnose neuroses and psychotic diseases as not-lived higher possibilities.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Creativity, Power, Psychics

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• Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Objectivity, Creating, Evil

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• You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

  Faith Ringgold

  Art, Writing, Waiting

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