Quotes about Inaction
hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him.
- John Updike
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Even choosing to do nothing is still making a choice.
- Mark Batterson
Dr. Neal Roese makes a fascinating distinction between two types of regret: regrets of action and regrets of inaction.
- Mark Batterson
When we fail to take action, we forfeit the future. And just as inaction is an action, indecision is a decision. As Edmund Burke famously said, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- Mark Batterson
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
5. Procrastination
- Myles Munroe
The fool folds his hands and consumes his own flesh.
- Ecclesiastes 4:5
Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.
- Ecclesiastes 10:18
‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’
- Matthew 11:17
Such are the lives of those who haven't the courage to risk: solutions are generously provided by God, but people always seek complicated explanations, and end up doing nothing.
- Paulo Coelho
The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.
- Mahatma Gandhi