Inaction Quotes

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect. Leonardo da Vinci

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. Dale Carnegie

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 F Kennedy

The most ominous of fallacies – the belief that things can be kept static by inaction. Freya Stark

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

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

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

Drastic action can be costly, but it can be less expensive than continuing inaction. Richard Neustadt

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror. Doug Horton