Lack of Action Quotes

A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

Washington’s largest industry is inertia.

I saw Sadat as a character out of Aida. He talked a lot but never acted. I didn’t take him seriously.

Making no decision is a decision. To do nothing. And doing nothing always brings you to nowhere.

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.

What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.

Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today, 'Lets think of all the poor dead people' - or 'let's honor all the dead' instead of fighting for the living. He has been really useless in terms of both HIV and gay issues. He is simply not a leader. He may be president, but he is not a leader.

Talkers are no good doers.

All of the things that Hillary Clinton was talking about could have been taken care of during the last 10 years, let's say, while she had great power. But they weren't taken care of. And if she ever wins this race, they won't be taken care of.

We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit that there was even a problem - anywhere above seven rogue soldiers who got out of control on the night shift.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.

The CIA has become a hollow shell of words without deeds

People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.

Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.

I think Paul Martin doesn't mean what he says. He said he would clear this sort of thing up and he didn't do it.

Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

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

Nothing was happening in the bedroom. I nicknamed our waterbed the Dead Sea.

The only menace is inertia.

It's almost impossible to dislike me, because I do nothing.

If you don't know what to play, play nothing.

Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is.