Failure To Act Quotes:

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.

- Charles Kettering

topic: Courage, Believe, Impossible, Belief In Yourself, Failure To Act

The greatest failure of all is the failure to act when action is needed

- John Wooden

topic: Action, Needed, Failure To Act

There is some risk involved in action, there always is. But there is far more risk in failure to act.

- Harry S. Truman

source: United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1964). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

topic: War, Risk, Action, Failure To Act

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

- Og Mandino

source: Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

topic: Being Strong, Encouraging, Encouragement, Self Determination, Inspirational Determination

Make a decision! Failure to act is often the biggest failure of all.

- John Wooden

topic: Positivity, Decision, Failure To Act

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

- Janette Turner Hospital

topic: Doe, Action, Futility, Failure To Act

So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.

- Suze Orman

topic: Dream, Financial, Good Intentions, Failure To Act, Best Intentions

Live today. Remove all blame from your vocabulary. Catch yourself when you find yourself using your past history as a reason for your failure to act today, and instead say, 'I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.'

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Past, Vocabulary, Finding Yourself, Failure Is Not An Option, Detached

We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.

- Veronica Roth

topic: Fear, Believe, Preparation, Failure To Act

Restoring nature to its natural state is a cause beyond party and beyond factions. It has become a common cause of all the people of this country. It is a cause of particular concern to young Americans, because they more than we will reap the grim consequences of our failure to act on programs which are needed now if we are to prevent disaster later.

- Richard M. Nixon

topic: Country, Party, People, Failure To Act

One's only real regret in life is the failure to act.

- Jane Stanton Hitchcock

source: Jane Stanton Hitchcock (2012). “Trick of the Eye: A Novel”, p.26, Harper Collins

topic: Regret, Real, Life Is, Life Regret, Failure To Act

Don't be afraid to fail. The greatest failure of all is failure to act when action is needed. Use the information that you've acquired in the past through the experiences you've had and act with self-control - but act.

- John Wooden

topic: Past, Self, Information, Failure To Act, Afraid To Fail

Don’t hide love. If you feel it, express it-not to demand that others love you back, but simply to live outwardly the best of what you feel inwardly. The worst that can happen to your heart is not rejection by another person but failure to act on the love you feel.

- Martha Beck

topic: Love You, Heart, Rejection, Failure To Act, Hide Love

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

- Barack Obama

source: Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on Libya, National Defense University, Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 28, 2011.

topic: Military, America, Cost, Military Action, Failure To Act

... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it ... the failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: War, Mean, Turkeys, Failure To Act, Armenian Genocide