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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie
Silence
History
Justice
Better
Evil
Made
Those
Possible
Has-Been
Indifference
Triumph
Voice
Could
Throughout
Most
Known
Been
Mattered
Inaction
Should
Acted
Who
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie
Home
You
Confidence
Courage
Fear
Sit
Doubt
Action
Busy
Think
Out
About
Go
Get
Want
Inaction
Breeds
Conquer
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy
Risks
Long
Action
Range
Costs
Comfortable
Than
Inaction
Far
Far Less
Less
Chance
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
Norman Vincent Peale
Great
You
Confidence
Fear
Better
Result
Cause
Will
Action
Adjustment
Follow
Only
Take
Perhaps
Builder
Than
Any
Different
Inaction
Successful
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
Meister Eckhart
Mistake
Cost
Price
Greater
Making
Than
Inaction
Far
The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.
Tim Holden
Racism
Society
Consequences
Ramifications
Responsibilities
Citizenship
Examine
Indifference
Powerful
Stereotyping
Forces
Inaction
Confront
Us
Holocaust
Prejudice
Illustrate
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
Water
Mind
Purity
Does
Loses
Iron
Stagnation
Inaction
Sap
Vigor
Even
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
John Stuart Mill
Cause
Evil
Others
Case
Only
He
His
Accountable
Person
May
Either
Inaction
Them
Justly
Actions
Injury
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Bill Gates
Change
Yourself
Will
Ten
Underestimate
Overestimate
Always
Occur
Years
Inaction
Next
Lulled
Two
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
Winston Churchill
Action
Worry
About
Only
Never
Inaction
Of course laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.
Shirley Chisholm
Injustice
Will
Our
Enshrined
Laws
No Reason
Through
Allow
Course
Continue
Perpetuate
Hearts
Human
Human Beings
Inaction
Prejudice
Reason
Beings
Eliminate
There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere.
Robert Zoellick
Prosperity
Must
Taken
Roads
Leads
Inaction
Many
Nowhere
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nature
Progress
Development
Knows
Curse
Inaction
Pause
Her
In any bureaucracy, there's a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction.
Chris Fussell
Natural
Become
System
Tendency
Excuse
Bureaucracy
Any
Inaction
Natural Tendency
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
Will Rogers
Action
Chaotic
Orderly
Inaction
Preferable
Inaction may be the biggest form of action.
Jerry Brown
Action
May
Form
Biggest
Inaction
Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.
David Brock
Ignorance
Willful
Inexcusable
Improved
Inaction
Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. 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
Success
Failure
Creative
Risks
Opportunity
Destructive
Thoughtless
High
Risk
More
Risk-Taking
Seize
Taking
Perhaps
Course
Caution
Goal
Any
Essential
Where
Which
Inaction
Stakes
Even
Wasteful
Chance
Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.
Chuck Schumer
Mistake
Perhaps
Greatest
Inaction
There are many different types of racism from people of different colours and nationalities. There is no vaccine to fight this and no antibiotics to take. It's a dangerous and infectious virus which is strengthened by indifference and inaction.
Kevin-Prince Boateng
Fight
Racism
People
Dangerous
Types
Virus
Indifference
Take
Colours
Antibiotics
Infectious
Different
Which
Different Colours
Inaction
Many
Different Types
Strengthened
Vaccine
Our inner beliefs trigger failure before it happens. They sabotage lasting change by canceling its possibility. We employ these beliefs as articles of faith to justify our inaction and then wish away the result. I call them belief triggers.
Marshall Goldsmith
Faith
Failure
Change
Result
Wish
Before
Lasting
Our
Possibility
Trigger
Triggers
Sabotage
Employ
Call
Articles
Happens
Inaction
Justify
Them
Then
Belief
Beliefs
Away
Inner
Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.
Charles J. Givens
Past
Action
Failures
Losses
Inaction
Use
Reason
Sometimes inaction is worse than action.
Dave Rubin
Sometimes
Action
Worse
Than
Inaction
With the continued support of citizens who refuse to accept inaction at the expense of future generations, we will lead the world toward a sustainable future.
Diana DeGette
Future
World
Will
Future Generations
Citizens
Lead
Generations
Support
Toward
Accept
Continue
Expense
Refuse
Sustainable
Inaction
Who
Of the alternatives we face in controlling long-term spending growth, moving Medicare to a voucher system seems only mildly unfortunate - and nothing as compared with a debt-driven economic crisis that could stem from inaction.
Jacob Weisberg
Economic Crisis
Face
Controlling
Nothing
Spending
Crisis
System
Seems
Only
Economic
Could
Stem
Long-Term
Alternatives
Unfortunate
Inaction
Moving
Compared
Growth
Medicare
For far too long, the Republican leadership in Congress has refused to act and pass comprehensive reform fixing our broken immigration system. In light of Republican inaction, I strongly support President Obama's executive actions on immigration.
Jan Schakowsky
Leadership
Broken
Immigration
Light
Long
Congress
Too
President
Our
System
Obama
Strongly
Comprehensive
Support
Executive
Pass
Reform
Fixing
Refused
Republican
Inaction
Far
Act
Actions
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