116 Quotes About Inaction

When there is so much to be done, our “To do list” never see an action due to the confusion on where to start, we keep wasting time in making changes to the list and not working on the list, and there comes a time when confusion overpowers the intention to start.

The Leadership Seduction of storytelling invites self-pity, exaggerates one's importance, and encourages inaction.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

The simple act of sitting here sipping this cappuccino is its own testament to my commitment to living the writer’s life. Which is to say: doing nothing but doing it exceedingly well.

If you have a choice, you should ALWAYS choose action over inaction!

In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.

Inaction is no longer acceptable.

Lately Louise had decided to give up wearing make-up altogether, but had not yet acted upon the decision.

The problems were too evident, they sat together eyeing them in silence. The stage now belonged to the young people, there would be happenings. Yet nothing happened; and Clement felt as if a magic spell had paralysed them all.