Those who claim to be on the side of good yet do nothing to fight evil are on the side of evil.

— Joyce Rachelle

Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it.

— Criss Jami

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

— Winston S. Churchill

We are the sum of our actions, and of our inaction, yes, that is easy enough to understand. What comes harder is finding ourselves the sum of our emotions, which flicker, altered by experience, by the things we cannot bear to tell ourselves, by the trouble we accrue, the flattening and tamping down as we learn how not to be hurt. As we learn protection and the easiest means of protection.

— Carrie Snyder

We have to accept that any action we take might promote an equal and opposite reaction that we do not want. We have to realize that even the most noble actions or most obviously correct course can have its dark side that we cannot control or reason our way out of. The fighter of the "just war" must understand that her actions will result in the deaths of other humans; many of whom may be innocent. The pacifist who refuses all war must realize that his inaction might likewise result in the deaths of the innocent. There are no actions without contradiction—and yet we must act, for not to act is also a contradictory action with both positive and negative effects.

— John Hunter

Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When you can't cure a disaster by argument, what is the use to argue?

— Mark Twain

We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous… but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction.

— Steve Maraboli

You are only earning the life you get when your inaction allows people to decide for you.

— Shannon L. Alder

You are where you are right now because of the actions you've taken, or maybe, the inaction you've taken.

— Steve Maraboli