Passive Quotes

• The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Travel, Adventure, Memorable

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.85, Vintage

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• Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Patience, Be Patient, Active

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• To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Acceptance, Different, Objects

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hate, Envy, Hatred

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• The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Travel, Adventure, Passive Voice

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• Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

  William Blake

  Evil, Thought Provoking, Active

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.127, Pearson Education

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• It is natural that we face obstacles in pursuit of our goals. But if we remain passive, making no effort to solve the problems we meet, conflicts will arise and hindrances will grow. Transforming these obstacles into opportunities is a challenge to our human ingenuity.

  Dalai Lama

  Opportunity, Goal, Effort

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• We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral embrace of wildness and life that aims at dancing on the ruins of clocks, computers and that failure of imagination and will called work. Can we justify our lives by anything less than such a politics of rage and dreams?

  John Zerzan

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

  John Zerzan (2012). “Future Primitive Revisited”, p.96, Feral House

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  I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “An Effective Life: Inspirational Philosophy from Dr. Covey’s Life”, p.88, FranklinCovey Co.

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• Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, well move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.

  Jason Silva

  Moving, Fate, Thinking

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• Heterosexual women who've had long-term relationships see their man fall apart. They go, "I'm giving him my whole life - I'm giving him my love, I'm cooking for him, he's got this great sex, he's got everything. Why is he so miserable all of a sudden? Why does he want to get away with his buddies and look at other girls? What is his problem?" It seems like something that happens to men, they feel like their manliness has been chipped away and destroyed by being with just one woman. They feel resentful and they're passive-aggressive.

  Anna Biller

  Girl, Sex, Fall

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Never be passive. Victories happen when you take charge of a game. You can't win by playing not to lose".

  Karen Kingsbury

  Winning, Games, Victory

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• There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.

  Marilyn French

  Power, Greater, Dependency

  Marilyn French (2013). “The Bleeding Heart: A Novel”, p.370, Open Road Media

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• Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

  Ronald Reagan

  Memorial Day, Military, War

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• Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Receiving, Sacred, Revelations

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• Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.

  Bertrand Russell

  Leadership, Girl, Teacher

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Why Men Fight”, p.106, Routledge

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

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Finals, Judgment, Passing

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• Passive perception promotes pessimism; Persistent perseverance promises prosperity

  Yatin Patel

  Perseverance, Perception, Promise

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

  William Ames

  Spiritual, Men, Grace

  William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”

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• Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.

  Kenneth Kaunda

  Sports, War, Class

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• Constructing passive sentences is a way of concealing your own testicles.

  Ian Holm

  Way, Testicles, Sentences

  "Fictional character: Dr. Ernesto Morales". "The Treatment", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Knowing nothing about investing might be a benefit. You won't have to unlearn many popular beliefs propagated by Wall Street and the media that aren't true.

  Michael LeBoeuf

  Wall, Knowing Nothing, Media

  Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer, Michael LeBoeuf (2014). “The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing”, p.28, John Wiley & Sons

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• I'd rather have the market tell us what - I'd rather have events precipitate events, rather than just sit there like passive people in Washington.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  People, Events

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Rights, Passive Resistance, Suffering

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anthony J. Parel (1997). “Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice.

  Mary Travers

  Struggle, Silent, Social

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