116 Quotes About Inaction

Stagnation is self-abdication.

Never mistake the uncomfortable feeling of insecurity and the fear of the unknown with the Holy Ghost’s promptings. Sometimes those feelings are simply Satan keeping you stuck where you are because he knows you will have a half-life there. He knows that you will spend half of your life disconnected, discontented and convincing your mind of what its heart will never accept. He knows when you have settled, gave up and didn’t try. Inaction is his greatest weapon, while regret is his second.

But I know I will do neither; nothing. I have all the time in the world, and yet, I can't be bothered.

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.

Many times, the thought of fear itself is greater than what it is we fear.

Although he longed to see Louise, and to see Aleph, he increasingly lacked the will to go.

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

We may not always be able to control what we are, but we can control what we do. Everyone has a dark side, but we have a choice not to act on it.

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