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Inaction Quotes

"The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything."

"He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence"

"Woe to him that's bystander to his own distress"

"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."

"The worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing"

"You're going to pay the price for everything you do and everything you don't do."

"Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction "

"Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage."

"Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing"

"To sit home, read one’s favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men doing."

"The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people."

"They will never be able to prove us right or wrong because we belong to those who never have the courage for anything."

"Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable"

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

"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing"