Inaction Quotes - Page 2

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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.

Tennessee Williams

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