Inaction Quotes
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie
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Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.
Cesar Chavez
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Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I never worry about action, but only about inaction
Winston Churchill
Subject: Action Quotes :: Inaction QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
Alex Hunter
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There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction
Andy Krikorian
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Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we`re fighting a war on terror.
Bill Kristol
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Others may choose to sit on the sidelines while violence threatens to reach beyond our prison walls and into our communities, but we will not let their inaction deter us from our duty to protect Oklahoma families,
Mike Morgan
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It was lights, camera, inaction.
Terry Gilliam
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Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
Jerry Brown
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Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing.
Alan Quilley
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Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
Charles Schumer
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I never worry about action, but only inaction.
Winston Churchill
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I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Winston Churchill
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Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
Alex Hunter
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Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
Alane Fagin
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Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can`t change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don`t fully accept a situation precisely the way i...
Adeo Ressi
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A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Adam Clymer
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Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
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There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John Kennedy
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One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; Three, a robot must protect its own...
Isaac Asimov
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On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction.
Aaron Hammerman
