Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.

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.

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.

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

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.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

It was lights, camera, inaction.

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.

Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing.