All Quotes By Tag: Inaction

“You are where you are right now because of the actions you’ve taken, or maybe, the inaction you’ve taken.”

“If you try and lose then it isn’t your fault. But if you don’t try and we lose, then it’s all your fault.”

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”

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

“Children understood at a very young age that doing nothing was an expression of power. Doing nothing was a choice swollen with omnipotence. It was, in fact, godly.And this, she now realized, was the reason why the gods did nothing. Proof of their omniscience. After all, to act was to announce awful limitations, for it revealed that chance acted first, the accidents were just that–events beyond the will of the gods–and all they could do in answer was to attempt to remedy the consequences, to alter natural ends. To act, then, was an admission of fallibility.”

“Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.”

“But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.”