Failure to Act Quotes

That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.

The greatest failure is the failure to try.

Over the last decade the United Nations has repeatedly failed to meet the challenge, and cannot do any better today.

Through indecision opportunity is often lost.

Make a decision! Failure to act is often the biggest failure of all.

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

One of the worst mistakes is to do nothing.

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

They weren't moving. Perhaps I was dazzling then with my ineptitude. It had happened before.

It was gross negligence…. We failed in carrying through some of the salient aspects of the Oswald investigation. It ought to be a lesson to us all, but I doubt if some even realize it now.

Worst is the one who knows better and does nothing.

If we define risk as 'the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,' inaction is the greatest risk of all.

Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

That we have collectively failed to halt and repudiate the war in Iraq makes us even worse than the Germans.

Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.

If you know but do not do, you are a very unhappy person indeed.

Failure is not about insecurity. It's about lack of execution.

Every one may know that to will and not to do, when there is opportunity, is in reality not to will; and that to love what is good and not to do it, when it is possible, is in reality not to love it. Will, which stops short of action, and love, which does not do the good that is loved, is a mere thought separate from will and love, which vanishes and comes to nothing.

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

… the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time.

In the pandemonium of the crisis in New Orleans, somehow getting people on busses took priority over keeping them alive.

If you ever take your foot off the gas pedal, things will spiral out of control, snowball downwards.

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.