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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

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

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

Inaction, contrary for its reputation as being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

The most ominous of fallacies--the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

What you don't do can be a destructive force.

So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon our society than the others.