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There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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Free yourself from the need to blame others. There are two reasons that you are where you are right now; action or inaction. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

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Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

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It is easy to use the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience. ... My hope is that instead of searching for 'God's will for my life' each of us would learn to seek hard after 'the Spirit's leading in my life today.' May we learn to pray for an open and willing heart, to surrender to the Spirit's leading with that friend, child, spouse, circumstance, or decision in our lives right now. ↗

— Francis Chan

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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing." [The Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1995: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management and the District of Columbia of the Committee on Governmental Affairs (1996)] ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing. ↗

— Dave Freudenthal

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If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all. ↗

— Jesse Ball

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Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

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Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror. ↗

— Bill Kristol

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