Lucan Quotes

Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.

Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use it) does not have the passion to rip himself away from either the coils of Reflection or the seductive ambiguities of Reflection; nor do the surroundings and times have any events or passions, but rather provide a negative setting of a habit of reflection, which plays with some illusory project only to betray him in the end with a way out: it shows him that the most clever thing to do is nothing at all.

Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "Breeds pestilence.

Many a false step was made by standing still.

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.

I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

Delays in or avoidance of decision making was chronic.

Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?

I kind of waited for opportunities to be handed to me. I think I was lazy, and when things didn't go right, I just said, 'Oh well.'

My biggest worry is that sometimes you know the problem, but you don't do anything about it until it gets too big to be fixed.

He who hesitates, meditates horizontally

The temerity to believe in nothing.

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

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done.