Top 213 Inaction Quotes & Sayings

Imperfect action beats perfect inaction every time.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

True prayer is not a prelude to inaction.

Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Inaction counted as a choice.

Fruitless striving breeds less despair than inaction.

Action always beats inaction.

Change quotes were meant to move us from inaction to action.

Drastic action can be costly, but it can be less expensive than continuing inaction.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Lack of orders is no excuse for inaction.

In any bureaucracy, there's a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction.

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

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

Sometimes inaction is worse than action.

Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.

To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.

Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.

Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?

When you say ROI, do you mean return on investment or risk of inaction.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years becuase you are afraid to be alive and to take the risk of expressing what you are. Expressing what you are is taking action.

Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

There is no excuse for inaction in the face of economic injustice.

We have to remind ourselves that we are not the transitory body, we are not the person who is having experiences, we are not affected by action or inaction.

Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing.

To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible.

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

All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all.

Awareness isn't passive. It directly leads to action (or inaction).

Signs of a poorly understood but treatable house fire requires action, not inaction.

Silence, indifference and inaction were Hitler's principal allies.

Is multilateralism nothing more than a dodge for simple inaction?

The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; 2: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; 3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law; The Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.

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

The only thing between you and success is your thinking. Defeatist thoughts are the mother of inaction.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

It was lights, camera, inaction.

Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Cynicism does not cause inaction.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere.

The master action, to move forward is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.

Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

My mother always told me that inaction is not an option. And neither is going it alone.

So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action.

The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.

Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.

One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.

Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience.

Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction.

To me, there is no doubt: inaction abroad emboldens actions on the home front. They are related.

Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.

We must create our own world or we will die from inaction