Passive Quotes
Passive Quote of the day
Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.
A team is not made up of isolated individuals. Always stay in the game. Don't be passive. Football is a team game. No one plays alone. Success depends on your whole team being a single unit.
Hair and shoes say it all. Everything in between is forgivable as long as you keep it simple. Trying to talk with your clothes is passive-aggress ive.
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.
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.
Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.
In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.
Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.
Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.
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.'
Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive.
New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.
Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings.
I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive.
Love without sacrifice is like theft
You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.
Gentleness is an active trait, describing the manner in which we should treat others. Meekness is a passive trait, describing the proper Christian response when others mistreat us.
The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.
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.
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.
To obtain financial freedom, one must be either a business owner, an investor, or both, generating passive income, particularly on a monthly basis.
Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.
Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.
If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.
Passive righteousness tells us that God does not need our good works. Active righteousness tells us that our neighbor does. The aim and direction of good works are horizontal, not vertical.
The key to financial freedom and great wealth is a person's ability or skill to convert earned income into passive income and/or portfolio income.
Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.
Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.
Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
Unless an investor has access to “incredibly high-qualified professionals,” they “should be 100 percent passive - that includes almost all individual investors and most institutional investors.
The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs.
Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.
