All Quotes, Inaction

25+ Inaction Quotes

Inaction is the absence of action. Inaction refers to the fact that someone is not doing anything. Inaction is the state of being inactive. The term "inaction" has been used for capturing lack of action, a deliberate decision to not take action, reduction or inhibition of action, the avoidance or difference of a decision, or sticking with the status quo or the default. Inaction often leads to nothingness. Fulfillment of life comes from action and emptiness comes from inaction. This is a collection of 27 quotes and sayings on "Inaction".


Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all. - Chuck Schumer
Inaction may be the biggest form of action. - Jerry Brown
Action cures fear, inaction creates terror. - Douglas Horton
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction. - Will Rogers
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. - Dale Carnegie
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. - John F. Kennedy
Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction. - Charles J. Givens
All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all. - Frewin Jones
Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger. - Silius Italicus
Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience. - Rory Vaden
Idleness is the rust of the soul. - Duc de Levis
Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace. - Farley Mowat
Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable. - David Brock
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. - Meister Eckhart
Vision without execution is just hallucination. - Henry Ford
The only thing between you and success is your thinking. Defeatist thoughts are the mother of inaction. - Iimani David
One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men. - Bhagavad Gita
Inaction in a deed of mercy becomes an action in a deadly sin. - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere. - Robert Zoellick
When nothing is done, nothing is left undone. - Lao-Tzu
Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice. - Benjamin N. Cardozo
Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction. - Harry Truman
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke
Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing. - Paul Valery
The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. - Theodore Roosevelt
Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing. - Dave Freudenthal
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