Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.

Sometimes inaction is worse than action.

This is how the entire course of a life can be changed - by doing nothing.

We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.

You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin.

Not to decide is to decide.

It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.

I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.

Lost are many great commissions by such neglect.

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

Whatever I did, there was always someone around who was better qualified. They just didn't bother to do it.

Who'd have thought that living life like a dime store floozy throughout your formative years could negatively affect your decision-making ability or long-term, future relationships?

I grew up with a lot of friends that had a lot of abilities to do a lot of different things and chose different routes and it wasn't a great outcome for them.

The worst thing you can do is nothing.

All The Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas Layin' In The Sun, Talkin' 'Bout The Things They Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda Done... But All Those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas All Ran Away And Hid From One Little Did.

Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!

Idiots are not responsible for what they do. The real guilt falls on rational people who sit on their hands while morons run wild. You can opt out if you want to. Play it safe. But if you do, don't complain when the roof comes down.

If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world.

A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken

We are all guilty of the good we did not do