Quotes about Inaction
The only thing for evil to triumph in the world is for good men not to act.
— Edmund Burke
Newland never seems to look ahead,' Mrs. Welland once ventured to complain to her daughter; and May answered serenely: 'No; but you see it doesn't matter, because when there's nothing particular to do he reads a book.
— Edith Wharton
Dr. Neal Roese makes a fascinating distinction between two types of regret: regrets of action and regrets of inaction.
— Mark Batterson
The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.
— CS Lewis
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
The fool folds his hands and consumes his own flesh.
— Ecclesiastes 4:5
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
— Norman Vincent Peale
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
5. Procrastination
— Myles Munroe
Sympathy is no substitute for action.
— David Livingstone
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
Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.
— John Stott