Passive Quotes · Page 4

“Being gentle doesn’t stop us fighting for our dreams.”

— Fennel Hudson

Active receptivity is needed, not a passive agitation.

— Ravi Ravindra

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.

— Herman Melville

“The goal of comfort is at the self-same time the abandonment of great accomplishments.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation.

— Studs Terkel

“It is never ideal to be passive by accepting whatever is personally unacceptable.”

— Steven Redhead

We didn't evolve to be passive victims or shoppers.

— Frances Moore Lappé

The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.

— Tullian Tchividjian

I'm always amazed at the American practice of allowing one party to a homosexual act to remain passive--it's so undemocratic. Sexmust be…

— W. H. Auden

The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.

— William Ames

I advocate for a totally new view of the role of the patient: patient as engaged partner, not passive recipient.

— Dave deBronkart

We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

— Daisaku Ikeda

The Bow’s passive approach to solar control and ventilation are implicit in its form, supported by an interesting structural system that is…

— Jeanne Gang

Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life…

— Ann Brashares

The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with…

— Alfred North Whitehead

But ... the days that the Jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies — those days are over.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is…

— Steven Pinker

I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that…

— Alexandre Dumas

Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear,…

— Hilary Mantel

Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around…

— Friedrich Schiller

To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give.…

— Bernard Iddings Bell

I want to feel my own nothingness, I want to give myself up in absolute resignation to God, to lie prostrate and…

— Thomas Chalmers

We must relinquish our passive observation of the world outside; we can open the door to the world we want. In understanding…

— Marianne Williamson

Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye…

— Simon Mainwaring

The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of…

— Abraham Maslow

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there and they are taught…

— Marilyn vos Savant

Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin.…

— Laurie R. King

Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of…

— Sidney Poitier

We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion…

— T. S. Eliot

There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace…

— Toni Morrison

“Without initiative, or the capacity to act, to make things happen or just to do something, we run the risk of living…

— Adam Goucher

As you know, shibumi has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does…

— Trevanian

I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.

— Paul Mooney

Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive.

— Rich Lowry

I'm always a little passive and can come across as being pathetic.

— Choi Woo-shik

Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses

— Deborah Day

You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses.

— T. Harv Eker

A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.

— Tom Peters

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.

— Sylvia Plath

My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.

— Tyler Perry