Passive Quotes

429 quotes by 361 authors

Never be passive. Victories happen when you take charge of a game. You can't win by playing not to lose". — Karen Kingsbury
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in… — Christopher Isherwood
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to… — Euripides
Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it and,… — Margaret Mahy
When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Relief is a short-lived emotion, passive and thin. The agony of doubt disappears, leaving little memory of how it really felt. Life aligns behind the… — Ann Brashares
We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand… — Wendell Berry
She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your… — Eve Ensler
Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are… — Fulton J. Sheen
I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over… — Alexandre Dumas
Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If the work of our sanctification presents us with difficulties that appear insurmountable, it is because we do not look at it in the right… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade
Patience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means staying with… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Stuff Happens.â€™ Thatâ€™s the G-rated version. Thatâ€™s a bumper sticker that only a straight white upper middle class male could have made. Because anyone who… — Tim Wise
Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't… — Sidney Poitier
For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them… — Stefan Zweig
Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over and over. Reading… — Gary Paulsen
When women's sexuality is imagined to be passive or "dirty," it also means that men's sexuality is automatically positioned as aggressive and right-no matter what… — Jessica Valenti

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