Quotes of Inaction - somelinesforyou

“ I never worry about action, but only about inaction. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. ”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“ Inaction may be the biggest form of action. ”

- Jerry Brown

“ The most ominous of fallacies: the belief that things can be kept static by inaction. ”

- Freya Madeline Stark

“ My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still. ”

- Unknown

“ The sleeping fox catches no poultry. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked. ”

- Unknown

“ It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked. ”

- Unknown

“ How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look? ”

- Bob Marley

“ Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself. ”

- Zen Saying

“ It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all. ”

- Georges Courteline

“ Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt. ”

- Norman Cousins

“ Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in. ”

- Confucius

“ My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still. ”

- Unknown

“ One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else. ”

- Jinx Milea

“ There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something. ”

- Trammell Crow

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

- Oscar Wilde

“ You won't skid if you stay in a rut. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest. ”

- Unknown

“ A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing. ”

- Unknown

“ Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing. ”

- Unknown

“ Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest. ”

- Unknown

“ But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin; it wuld be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen… ”

- Karl Jaspers

“ The biggest sin is sitting on your ass. ”

- Florynce R. Kennedy

“ Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going. ”

- Chris Bowkett

“ A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. ”

- Dale Carnegie

“ I'm taking these serious steps because of the urgency of the situation and, unfortunately, because of the total inaction and lack of resources from the federal government and Congress. ”

- Bill Richardson

“ The worst thing you can do is start slow, or con yourself into thinking that you can take your time getting into a match. The curtain is up so you've got to perform. ”

- Jack Kramer
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