…Defeat appears to me preferable to total Inaction.
– John Adams
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- To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Dawn appears when it appears. – Jared Brock
- Defeat is only a word. Defeat was the beginning of a victory. – Launa Rissadia
- Winners are those who defeat defeat. – Vinita Kinra
- Slartibartfast’s study was a total mess, like the results of an explosion in a public library. – Douglas Adams
- A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. – John Stuart Mill
- One of mankind’s greatest sins is inaction in the face of injustice. – John Kramer
- Maybe, peace was preferable to pleasure. Maybe, peace is one’s first love. – Anuradha Bhattacharyya
- Peace is preferable to war. But it’s not an absolute value, and so we always ask, -œWhat kind of peace? – Noam Chomsky
- Everybody wants a change and change happens in the life of everybody each day, but not all changes are preferable – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible. – Aristotle
- Strength and weakness are both mental constructs. Now you choose, what’s preferable for you. – Abhijit Naskar
- An end in terror is preferable to terror without end. – Sophie Scholl
- It has always been preferable to attribute a woman’s success to her beauty rather to her brains, to reduce her to the sum of her sex life. – Stacy Schiff
- …knowing often felt preferable to not knowing. It provided the illusion of control. – Jordan Castillo Price
- So long as victory can be attained, stupid haste is preferable to clever dilatoriness. – Sun Tzu
- Don’t accept the available as the preferable. Go extra mile with extra speed. – Israelmore Ayivor
- When I visit someplace new my favorite thing to do is eat…and walk, preferable to a place where I can eat some more. – Jessica Fechtor
- a lack of communication is preferable to a profusion of miscommunications. – Sagey Malik
- The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable. – Karl Kraus
- Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience. – Richard DavenportHines
- Your life will be simplified when you choose inaction when no action is required and choose action when action is required! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Inaction creates nothing. Action creates success. – Stephen Richards
- Failure is not the opposite of success, inaction is. – Rob Liano
- The only thing between you and success is your thinking. Defeatist thoughts are the mother of inaction. – Iimani David
- Fate is nothing but the past in the future. It is only an excuse for inaction. – Omid Banyasad
- The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of a mistake – Meg Whitman
- Every action or perceived inaction shapes credibility. – Mindy Hall
- Inaction is no longer acceptable. – Eric Lowitt
- As compassionate beings, we cannot harm others, not even through our inaction. – Thomm Quackenbush
- Take action and be brave Theodor for it is fear and inaction that kills. – Robert Radcliffe
- Inaction is the worst action of human beings! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Idealism + Inaction = Depression – Oli Anderson
- The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens. – Sunday Adelaja
- Change does not surface when you are not ready to be the catalyst. Your reaction matters, not your inaction. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There’s a certain boldness to inaction. – Karen Thompson Walker
- You are only earning the life you get when your inaction allows people to decide for you. – Shannon L Alder
- Inaction in a deed of mercy becomes an action in a deadly sin. – Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
- The Leadership Seduction of storytelling invites self-pity, exaggerates one’s importance, and encourages inaction. – Catherine RobinsonWalker
- The master action to move forward, is a form of inaction; being still and quiet. – Bryant McGill