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
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The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
Meister Eckhart
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
If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.
Colin Powell
The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.
Freya Stark
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
Will Rogers
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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
Perform your obligatory duty, because action is indeed better than inaction.
Bhagavad Gita
Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
Jerry Brown
Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.
Charles J. Givens
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
Right now, I think state and local governments are frustrated with the inaction of the federal government on illegal immigration.
John Trasviña
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.
Bhagavad Gita
Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing.
Dave Freudenthal
A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.
Jef Raskin
The damage that occurred is a result, not an act of God, but an inaction and action of man.
Linda Pasadava
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