Inactivity Quotes

• In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Inactivity is the beginning of all vice.

  C. F. W. Walther

  Vices

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• The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Danger, Peril, Overwork

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• Being willing is not enough. We must do.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivation, Journey

  Twitter post from Jan 1, 2018

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• Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Good Morning, Missing You

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• Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

  A. A. Milne

  Happiness, Being Happy, Appreciation

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• Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

  Chuck Close

  Work, Inspiration, Ideas

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• Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb

  Robertson Davies

  Preparation, Deprivation, Stimulus

  Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected works on the art of writing”, Penguin Group Canada

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• Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!

  Julian Bond

  Motivational, Monday, History

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• Some people wait so long for their ship to come in, their pier collapses.

  John Goddard

  Long, People, Waiting

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• The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Motivational, Adventure, Positivity

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

  Faith Ringgold

  Art, Writing, Waiting

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• It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

  Hugh Laurie

  Time, Procrastination, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Hugh Laurie from Aug 10, 2015

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• Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals,
  But because of the inactivities of the good people.

  Swami Vivekananda

  People, Criminals, Doe

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• Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty.

  William Feather

  Pay, Indifference, Penalties

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• If the grain of wheat could know fear, it would be paralyzed with anxiety at the thought of being dropped in the ground, covered over, put out of sight, doomed to inactivity, yet what a glorious harvest awaits it!

  Fred Rogers

  Sight, Anxiety, Would Be

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• If it is in the Bible, it is so. It's not even to be prayed about. It's to be received and acted upon. Inactivity is a robber which steals blessings. Increase comes by action, by using what we have and know. Your life must be one of going on from faith to faith.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Blessing, Action, Stealing

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• Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.

  Matt Lucas

  Depression, Uplifting, Enemy

  "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2009.

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• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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• We need to give thought, but we also need to take action. You need to dream without just being a dreamer.

  Jim Rohn

  Dream, Procrastination, Giving

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 27, 2016

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• It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving.

  Henrietta Mears

  Motivational, Women, Moving

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• Procrastination is another form of resistance

  Louise Hay

  Procrastination, Resistance, Form

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Nov 29, 2011

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• Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.

  Julian Assange

  Love, Courage, Character

  "Witnessing". Selected Correspondence, Julian Assange's old blog, IQ.org (via Archive.org), web.archive.org. January 3, 2007.

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