Quotes Tagged "inaction"

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

Children understood at a very young age that doing nothing was an expression of power. Doing nothing was a choice swollen with omnipotence. It was, in fact, godly. And this, she now realized, was the reason why the gods did nothing. Proof of their omniscience. After all, to act was to announce awful limitations, for it revealed that chance acted first, the accidents were just that--events beyond the will of the gods--and all they could do in answer was to attempt to remedy the consequences, to alter natural ends. To act, then, was an admission of fallibility.

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

You are where you are right now because of the actions you've taken, or maybe, the inaction you've taken.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.

In any bureaucracy, there's a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction.