Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Quotes

I'm able to do nothing.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

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

No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.

I have to say to the Government that you are not even getting nowhere fast - you are getting nowhere slowly.

Theory is the practice of the impotent.

The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.

You're in a terrible spot. It's too late for you to retreat but too soon to act. All you can do is witness. You're in the miserable position of an infant who cannot return to the mother's womb, but neither can he run around and act. All an infant can do is witness and listen to the stupendous tales of action being told to him. You are at that precise point now. You cannot go back to the womb of your old world, but you cannot act with power either. For you there is only witnessing acts of power and listening to tales of power.

Many a false step is made standing still.

Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

The real risk is doing nothing.

Experience is a form of paralysis.

Nobody drowns by falling in the water...but by staying there.

The greatest mistake a person can make is doing nothing.

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

You couldn't shoot a fart out of your own ass!

For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.

Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

People who fail, excel at avoiding opportunity.

Postponement: The father of failure.

Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port.

There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.

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

The man who never makes a mistake must get tired of doing nothing.