Inaction Quotes

There was a certain wisdom in doing little, when one was obliged to act in ignorance.

As long as [man] does not convert it into action, it does not matter how much he thinks about this n...

I hesitate in everything, often without knowing why. How often I've sought – as my own version of th...

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or t...

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to ac...

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

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he...

Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it.

Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When...

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 f...

Children understood at a very young age that doing nothing was an expression of power. Doing nothing...

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

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do ...

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

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

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, ...

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Count Ayakura’s abstraction persisted. He believed that only a vulgar mentality was willing to ackno...

You have only to rest in inaction and things will transform themselves. Smash your form and body, sp...