Inaction Quotes - page 3

The pain of problems is a call to find solutions rather than a reason for unhappiness and inaction, so it's silly, pointless, and harmful to be upset at the problems and choices that come at you (though it's understandable). (Ray Dalio)
Getting out to protest, this is something real and, I would say, something patriotic. Part of the new authoritarianism is to get people to prefer fiction and inaction to reality and action. View quote
Timothy D. Snyder
I wanted to show some of the faces of Washington's inaction - to share a small sliver of the lives we've lost because our nation is overflowing with guns. This issue is only controversial in the halls of Congress. Outside Washington, people understand the horror of gun violence and are increasingly unwilling to tolerate a Congress that is owned and operated by the gun lobby. View quote
Chris Murphy
The real and active Communists in Australia present us with our immediate problem - not the woolly-headed dupes, not the people who are pushed to the front in order to present a respectable appearance, but the real and active Communists. We have a clear choice, and we must make it clearly. We can attack these Communists frontally, or we can adopt inaction and justify it by accepting one or all of the arguments that are used currently to justify inaction. View quote
Robert Menzies
Come on,” I said. "We have to try. The effort is utterly pointless, but inaction seems an even greater agony. View quote
Michael Shea
With the continued support of citizens who refuse to accept inaction at the expense of future generations, we will lead the world toward a sustainable future. View quote
Diana DeGette
Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words 'climate change' in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk. View quote
Jeff Goodell
Our actions - and inaction - touch people we may never know and never meet across the globe. View quote
Jacqueline Novogratz
Hundreds of investors ask me questions each year about the dilemmas they confront. Their worst problem? Uncertainty. They are traumatized and become emotional or confused to the state of inaction. Even worse, they try to solve a short-term problem in a way that hurts them financially in the long run. View quote
Kenneth Fisher
In this context, I believe it is an imperative for the new President to select and install his team as quickly as possible, and this does not imply that he must or should appoint members of the 'other' party to his Cabinet, which could contribute to inaction and inefficiency. View quote
Richard V. Allen
If an economy in the doldrums could drift indefinitely, the price of government inaction might be graver by far than the consequences of bold unorthodoxy. (Robert Heilbroner)
Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can't say, 'Is it too late?' That is the terrible question, because either answer promotes inaction. If it's too late, you don't need to act; if it's not too late, you don't need to act. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
Inaction may be the biggest form of action. View quote
Jerry Brown
We can change our future, but we cannot escape our destiny. That is why life is a journey, not a destination. All roads lead to Rome, but our actions and inaction determine the meaning of our life regardless of the outcome. View quote
Newton Lee
Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction. View quote
Dale Carnegie
When you fear to fail, you fear something that has not happened yet. You predict your own failure, and by inaction, lock yourself into it. View quote
Robin Hobb
Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction. View quote
Shirley Chisholm
It was lights, camera, inaction. View quote
Terry Gilliam
Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? View quote
Patrick Henry
You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction. View quote
Marco Rubio
One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. (Isaac Asimov)
From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
We today have that same power if we but choose it, but choose it we must. What makes each of us unique is the individual choices we make. There will always be doubters, those who prefer inaction. I have heard it all, but I am still a believer in the dream. I choose to believe. View quote
Yolanda King
Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. We are not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. View quote
Peter McWilliams
The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done. View quote
Greta Thunberg