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Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing. -- Dave Freudenthal
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Action cures fear, inaction creates terror. -- Douglas Horton
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction. -- Will Rogers
Inaction may be the biggest form of action. -- Jerry Brown
I never worry about action, but only inaction. -- Winston Churchill
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. -- Dale Carnegie
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. -- Meister Eckhart
There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere. -- Robert Zoellick
Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction. -- Charles J. Givens
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater. -- Tony Blair
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. -- John F. Kennedy
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci
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. -- John Stuart Mill
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
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
The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction. -- Tim Holden
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. -- Haile Selassie
Inaction counted as a choice. -- Dean Koontz
Inaction is no longer acceptable. -- Eric Lowitt
Inaction creates nothing. Action creates success. -- Stephen Richards
Inaction saps the vigor of the mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all. -- Charles Schumer
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice. -- Benjamin Cardozo
Inaction in a deed of mercy becomes an action in a deadly sin. -- Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience. -- Rory Vaden
Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace. -- Farley Mowat
Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life. -- Ben Sherwood
In the quest for comparative advantage, investment will flow towards those countries that can offer more output for fewer emissions. Inaction will cost jobs. Action will support jobs. -- Julia Gillard
I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed. Inaction, no falsifying dream Between my hooked head and hooked feet: Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat. -- Ted Hughes
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. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction. -- Bill Gates
Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction. -- Harry S. Truman
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction -- Freya Stark
Our actions - and inaction - touch people we may never know and never meet across the globe. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction -- Nicholas D. Kristof
While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. -- Gary Ryan Blair
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. -- Gary Ryan Blair
You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction. -- Marco Rubio
Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. -- Gary Ryan Blair
First, imagine taking the potentially regret - producing path of inaction. Then imagine what the very best outcome would be were you to take this risk. By picturing both scenarios in advance, you can avoid the regret of what might have been. -- Wayne Dyer
Hundreds of investors ask me questions each year about the dilemmas they confront. Their worst problem? Uncertainty. They are traumatized and become emotional or confused to the state of inaction. Even worse, they try to solve a short-term problem in a way that hurts them financially in the long run. -- Kenneth Fisher
Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk. -- Jeff Goodell
So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It's our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed. -- Lee Strobel
Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can't say, 'Is it too late?' That is the terrible question, because either answer promotes inaction. If it's too late, you don't need to act; if it's not too late, you don't need to act. -- Kim Stanley Robinson
Action always beats inaction. -- T. Harv Eker
Cynicism does not cause inaction.. -- David Wong
Fruitless striving breeds less despair than inaction. -- Mason Cooley
Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction. -- Dale Carnegie
Every action or perceived inaction shapes credibility. -- Mindy Hall
Imperfect action beats perfect inaction every time. -- Harry S. Truman
Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? -- Patrick Henry
True prayer is not a prelude to inaction. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty. -- William Feather
Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction. -- Jerry Brown
Lack of orders is no excuse for inaction. -- George S. Patton
Silence, indifference and inaction were Hitler's principal allies. -- Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits
Awareness isn't passive. It directly leads to action (or inaction). -- Deepak Chopra
Is multilateralism nothing more than a dodge for simple inaction? -- Elliott Abrams
Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting. -- Seth Godin
So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. -- John Green
Change quotes were meant to move us from inaction to action. -- Jon Jones
We must create our own world or we will die from inaction -- Robert Greene
Acceptance does not mean inaction; acceptance is actually acknowledging the present situation. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible. -- Ernest Holmes
Signs of a poorly understood but treatable house fire requires action, not inaction. -- Graciela Chichilnisky
Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Actions speak louder than words. And sometimes inaction speaks louder than both of them. -- Matthew Good
Drastic action can be costly, but it can be less expensive than continuing inaction. -- Richard Neustadt
To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction. -- Fernando Pessoa
Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction. -- Jose Rizal
All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all. -- Allan Frewin Jones
Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger. -- Silius Italicus
When you say ROI, do you mean return on investment or risk of inaction. -- Paul Gillin
The master action, to move forward is a form of inaction; being still and quiet. -- Bryant H. McGill
We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly. -- Benjamin Franklin
Our actions- and inaction- touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
Every action (or inaction) involves a choice between what is more important and what is less important. -- Brian Tracy
You are only earning the life you get when your inaction allows people to decide for you. -- Shannon L. Alder
My mother always told me that inaction is not an option. And neither is going it alone. -- Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm. -- Jef Raskin
The only thing between you and success is your thinking. Defeatist thoughts are the mother of inaction. -- Iimani David
Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror. -- Bill Kristol
Intentions alone amount to nought. It's in action, not inaction that we can become all we can be -- Constance Chuks Friday
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. -- Isaac Asimov
The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You are where you are right now because of the actions you've taken, or maybe, the inaction you've taken. -- Steve Maraboli
It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction. -- Karen Thompson Walker
Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. -- Cesar Chavez
If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all. -- Tim Ferriss
We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality -- Bill Mollison
Fear was the worst evil ever to plague a man, for with it came hesitation and with that, inaction, failure, death. -- Melissa McPhail
Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction. -- Rupert Murdoch
If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering. -- Laozi
It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction. -- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity. -- Barack Obama
Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious. -- Margaret George
Surrender is not a weakness, or state of inaction, but rather a powerful state of pure energy; the energy of becoming your true purpose. -- Bryant H. McGill
A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction. -- Alan Lightman
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. -- Robert Heilbroner
No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise. -- Mark Twain
The only way to create change in anyone`s psychology or belief system is to show them the consequences of their actions - or inaction. -- Tony Robbins
With the continued support of citizens who refuse to accept inaction at the expense of future generations, we will lead the world toward a sustainable future. -- Diana DeGette
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
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. -- Colin Powell
I think it is important for people to understand that there are real serious economic costs and real serious economic damages associated with inaction on climate change. -- Naomi Oreskes
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 -- Frantz Fanon
Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains. -- Anthony Albanese
A bright man of conviction and action is a beacon to his country,but a flash light to the scurrying of inaction, ego, and insecurity of lesser men. -- Daniel S. Green

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