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Inactivity is death. -- Benito Mussolini
Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior. -- Warren Buffett
Inactivity is the beginning of all vice. -- C.F.W. Walther
Inactivity is the biggest sin in boxing. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
Inactivity is the killer and, remember, it's never too late. -- Jack LaLanne
Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb -- Robertson Davies
When you're a boxer, there is a lot of downtime and long periods of inactivity. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy. -- Matt Lucas
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. -- Ambrose Bierce
Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency. -- George C. Marshall
Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness. -- John Lydon
Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible. -- Jimmy Connors
So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity. -- Jack LaLanne
I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America. -- Olympia Snowe
The essence of decay is inactivity. -- Jack LaLanne
At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning. -- Jenny Holzer
The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience. -- John Stott
What's really heavy on my heart is fighting physical inactivity. -- Allyson Felix
There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity. -- Edmund Burke
The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity. -- Thomas A. Edison
The inactivity of a conqueror betrays the loss of strength and blood . . . -- Edward Gibbon
Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity. -- Warren Buffett
The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity. -- James Mackintosh
Two chief pitfalls into which the mystic is liable to fall--dreamy inactivity and Antinomianism." -- William Ralph Inge
Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell. -- Warren Buffett
You see, you don't get old from age, you get old from inactivity, from not believing in something. -- Jack LaLanne
Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good. -- Hannah More
The providence of God does not relieve us of our human responsibility: it doesn't call for inactivity, it calls for activity. -- Alistair Begg
There is always hazard in military activity, but we must decide between the positive loss of inactivity and the risk of action. -- Robert E. Lee
It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness. -- Shunryu Suzuki
The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness. -- Leo Tolstoy
Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots. -- Sun Tzu
Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to say, action. -- Franz Kafka
What is undeniable is that when comforts and convenience sap our energies and idealism, inactivity secretes sloth in to our minds like a poison in the blood. -- Os Guinness
Nobody can see pain. They have no frame of reference for pain that's happening to someone else. They can only see inactivity - which they interpret as laziness. -- Elizabeth Haynes
There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully. -- Charlotte Bronte
Pharmaceutical projects are like fresh fruit - they depreciate if they are not tended to, and they do poorly if sitting on the shelf with long periods of inactivity. -- Robert Burns
Over time it's going to be important for nations to know they will be held accountable for inactivity. You're either with us or against us in the fight against terror. -- George W. Bush
Personally, I've never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop...is beyond me! -- Bill Hybels
We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to observe a wise and masterly inactivity. -- John Randolph of Roanoke
A new study published by The British Medical Journal found that inactivity can kill you. I mean, these are the kind of findings that just scare the hell out of Congress. -- Jay Leno
Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair. -- John Piper
Perhaps out inactivity is not so much waiting on God as it is an expression of the fear of man, the love of the praise of man, and disbelief in God's providence. -- Kevin DeYoung
Because of the increasing rates of obesity, unhealthy eating habits and physical inactivity, we may see the first generation that will be less healthy and have a shorter life expectancy than their parents. -- Richard Carmona
We've got great flexibility and a certain discipline in terms of not doing some foolish thing just to be active - discipline in avoiding just doing any damn thing just because you can't stand inactivity. -- Charlie Munger
The thing one resents about winter is its inactivity; the perpetual sameness of ice-armored hills and snow-blanketed woods. Great things, of course, may be going on underneath; but nature wears a mask, is icily non-committal. -- Anne Bosworth Greene
Nothing, my dear and clever colleague, is not your run-of-the-mill nothing, the result of idleness and inactivity, but dynamic, aggressive Nothingness, that is to say, perfect, unique, ubiquitous, in other words Nonexistence, ultimate and supreme. -- Stanislaw Lem
If the grain of wheat could know fear, it would be paralyzed with anxiety at the thought of being dropped in the ground, covered over, put out of sight, doomed to inactivity, yet what a glorious harvest awaits it! -- Fred Rogers

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