Terry Pratchett Quotes

The greatest mistake a person can make is doing nothing.

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.

You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin.

This is how the entire course of a life can be changed - by doing nothing.

The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

Sometimes inaction is worse than action.

The worst thing you can do is sit there and do nothing, right?

Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.

You haven’t done anything wrong. You just haven’t done anything, and that’s what’s wrong.

The real risk is doing nothing.

A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; people stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.

The greatest failure of all is the failure to act when action is needed

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.

The biggest risk a person can take is to do nothing.

Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Many a false step was made by standing still.

Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.