It is more painful to do nothing than something.

More proverbs about Challenge

• When old age is evil, youth can learn no good. A corrupt elder corrupts the next generation; moral decay flows downward through families…
• It's ill healing an old sore. Reopening past wounds—whether emotional or relational—creates fresh damage harder to reso…
• Pain is forgotten where gain follows. Suffering endured becomes insignificant once its hardship yields profitable or valuable r…
• Great pain and little gain make a man soon weary. Disproportionate effort against meager returns exhausts resolve faster than any physical…
• Pains are the wages of ill-pleasures. Suffering naturally follows from indulgences that ignore consequences or moral bounds.
• On painting and fighting look aloof off. Maintaining distance reveals flaws invisible up close; premature judgment spoils both art…