116 Quotes About Inaction

When in doubt chicken out.

You know what you are? All of you? Children. Little kids playing pretend, with toys. You've spent years obsessing about this and now it's here, much to everyone's surprise, it's actually here, and it's  'tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow.' Tomorrow, when the sun comes up. Tomorrow, when the weather is warmer. Tomorrow, when we have more help, when things aren't so bad, when everything is aligned just right so that there's no risk of anything bad possibly happening.

The consequences of inaction are the things you must face as a result of doing nothing or not enough.

- Чтобы иметь возможность не действовать, нужно иметь возможность действовать, ведь тот, кто воздерживается от переворачивания горы из-за отсутствия средств, а утверждает, что выбрал неделание, ибо так велит ему мудрость, лишь выставляет себя на посмешище дешёвой видимостью философствования. (Трурль - королю Гениалону)("Сказка о трёх машинах-рассказчицах короля Гениалона")

Friend: We are here. Already here. Within. A train approaches a wall at a fatal rate of speed. You hold a switch in your hand, that accomplishes you know not what: do you throw it? Disaster is otherwise assured. It costs you nothing. Why not try?

But it was not real freedom, he realised. It was the freedom that comes from lack of choice and moreover, was the kind that only came with decisions delayed. It was a freedom of inaction.

Even non-change is imperceivable change, because inaction will slowly change you from what you could have been, to what you never will be.

The one who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is a wise person.