Quotes about Inaction
Not making a decision is actually a decision. It's the decision to stay the same.
— Lysa TerKeurst
All that is required for the triumph of evil is that good men remain silent and do nothing.
— Madeleine L'Engle
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
— Oscar Wilde
It's easier to stand on the sidelines, criticize, and say why you shouldn't do something. The sidelines are crowded. Get in the game.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Knowing what to do and not doing it is the same as not knowing what to do.
— Robin Sharma
You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.
— Mark Twain
Because I know the things I should be able to accomplish, and I don't want to do so.
— Paulo Coelho
People who live in fear tend to do a powerful lot of nothing.
— Janette Oke
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
For four or five generations it had been the rule of both houses that a young fellow should go to Columbia or Harvard, read law, and then lapse into more or less cultivated inaction.
— Edith Wharton
All That Is Needed For Evil To Succeeded, Is For Good People To Do Nothing
— Edmund Burke
The only thing for evil to triumph in the world is for good men not to act.
— Edmund Burke