Inaction Quotes
Inaction Quote of the day
Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect
Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.
The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .
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.
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
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.
While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction
Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.
Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.
If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.
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.
We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly.
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.
One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable.
It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.
If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy.
Actions speak louder than words. And sometimes inaction speaks louder than both of them.
Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.
You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.
The only way to create change in anyone's psychology or belief system is to show them the consequences of their actions - or inaction.
My mother always told me that inaction is not an option. And neither is going it alone.
If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all.
Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience.
A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.
Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.
