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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

  Elizabeth George

  Encouraging, Perseverance, Strong

  Elizabeth George (2007). “Finding God's Path Through Your Trials: His Help for Every Difficulty You Face”, p.52, Harvest House Publishers

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• Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

  Elie Wiesel

  Giving, Meaning Of Life, Overcoming

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• I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.

  Linus Torvalds

  Lying, Home, Ties

  "King Of Geeks Linus Torvalds Defends His Right To Code In His Bathrobe And Curse At Other Developers". www.forbes.com. July 16, 2013.

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• The ear is profound, whereas the eye is frivolous, too easily satisfied. The ear is active, imaginative, whereas the eye is passive. When you hear a noise at night, instantly you imagine its cause. The sound of a train whistle conjures up the whole station. The eye can perceive only what is presented to it.

  Robert Bresson

  Eye, Night, Profound

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.

  Orrin Woodward

  Excellence, Mindset, Results

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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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• 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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• 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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• Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ethical Principles, Light, Passive Resistance

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anthony J. Parel (1997). “Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings”, p.146, Cambridge University Press

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• Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

  Arthur Adamov

  Pleasure

  Arthur Adamov (1962). “Two Plays: Professor Taranne, Translated by Peter Meyer, and Ping Pong, Translated by Derek Prouse”

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• Those who are repeatedly passive in the face of injustice soon find their character corroded.

  Julian Assange

  Character, Faces, Injustice

  "Julian Assange: 'His philosophy keeps evolving'" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2010.

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• But when we observe, we are forced to pay attention. We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have to engage.

  Maria Konnikova

  Moving, Attention, Pay

  Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.9, Canongate Books

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