It is the greatest of all mistakes, to do nothing because you can only do little...

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.

To do nothing is the way to be nothing.

Because to suffer and do nothing is to be nothing, while to suffer and do something is to become someone.

Children understood at a very young age that doing nothing was an expression of power. Doing nothing was a choice swollen with omnipotence. It was, in fact, godly.

And this, she now realized, was the reason why the gods did nothing. Proof of their omniscience. After all, to act was to announce awful limitations, for it revealed that chance acted first, the accidents were just that — events beyond the will of the gods — and all they could do in answer was to attempt to remedy the consequences, to alter natural ends. To act, then, was an admission of fallibility.

The danger was not that I would do wrong, but that I would do nothing

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

The greatest crime in the world is to not develop your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.

Having oscillated all his life between the torments of a superficial loitering and the horrors of disinterested endeavour, he finds himself at last in a situation where to do nothing exclusively would be an act of the highest value, and significance.

Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction.

In How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Jenny Odell makes a deeply compelling case for ignoring all of the impulses toward productivity and perfection that have come to imbue our lives, leisure, and otherwise. That means doing, well, nothing — at least nothing that is conceived of as value-making under capitalism.

If you would escape moral and physical assassination, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing — court obscurity, for only in oblivion does safety lie.

The greatest crimes are not those committed for the sake of necessity but those committed for the sake of superfluity. One does not become a tyrant to avoid exposure to the cold.

Men, I think, are not capable of doing nothing, of saying nothing, of not reacting to injustice, of not protesting against oppression, of not striving for the good of society and the good life in the ways they see it.