Quotes about Inaction

“Many are called but few get up.”

“The sleeping fox catches no poultry.”

“You won't skid if you stay in a rut.”

“If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck”

“There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.”

“It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.”

“How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?”

“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.”

“Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.”

“Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.”

“To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.”

“A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.”

“One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.”

“Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.”

“To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last -- but eat you he will.”

“Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.”

“Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.”