Inactivity Quotes (page 2)

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• waves
• beautiful
• grace

[...] endless action and reaction. Those beautifully rounded pebbles which you gather on the sand and which you hold in your hand and marvel at their exceeding smoothness, were chiseled into their varies and graceful forms by the ceaseless action of countless waves. Nature is herself a great worker and never tolerates, without certain rebuke, any contradiction to her wise example. Inaction is followed by stagnation. Stagnation is followed by pestilence and pestilence is followed by death. Frederick Douglass

• kindness
• men
• inaction

Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within. Arthur Schopenhauer

• evil
• personal
• accounting

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. John Stuart Mill

• nature
• progress
• pausing

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• failure
• past
• loss

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction. Charles J. Givens

• light
• camera
• lights

It was lights, camera, inaction. Terry Gilliam

• change
• always
• willing

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction. Bill Gates

• fear
• create
• terrorism

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror. Douglas Horton

• powerful
• power
• responsibility

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction. Tim Holden

• doubling
• combining
• polis

If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive. Francis Crick

• different
• success
• fear

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all. Norman Vincent Peale

• ironic
• mindfulness
• evening

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. Leonardo da Vinci

• failure
• challenge
• view

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible. Jimmy Connors

• serious
• been
• seriousness

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency. George C. Marshall

• worries
• worrying
• action

I never worry about action, but only inaction. Winston Churchill