#inaction

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

#blame #inaction #success #experience

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction. ↗

— Charles J. Givens

#failures #inaction #losses #past #reason

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

#choices #decision #decisiveness #inaction #right-and-wrong

In this context, I believe it is an imperative for the new President to select and install his team as quickly as possible, and this does not imply that he must or should appoint members of the 'other' party to his Cabinet, which could contribute to inaction and inefficiency. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#believe #cabinet #context #contribute #could

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#actually #angry #darfur #doing #heard

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

#inaction #life #life

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

— Bill Kristol

#inaction #our #poor #precedent #respect

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

— Jim Butcher

#harry-dresden #inaction #life #molly-carpenter #life

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. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#inaction #just-do-it #success #team #success

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#attaches #curse #development #her #inaction