Passiveness Quotes:

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

- Eric Metaxas

topic: Prayer, Apathy, Passiveness

Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness

- William Wordsworth

source: William Wordsworth (1871). “The poetical works of William Wordsworth”, p.292

topic: Wise, Mind, Divine, Passiveness

Our countrymen have all the folly of the ***** and all the passiveness of the sheep.

- Alexander Hamilton

topic: Sheep, Revolution, Ass, American Revolution, Countrymen

A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.

- Hunter S. Thompson

source: Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.119, Ballantine Books

topic: Procrastination, Men, Choices, Choices Made, Passivity

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

- Stephen Covey

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Leaders Motivational, Top 100

As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.

- Bebe Moore Campbell

topic: Inspiration, Emotional, Waiting, Passiveness

I'm not looking for Bible verses to back up a lifestyle of passiveness. I'm looking for Bible verses and life experiences to teach me to live more radically for Christ.

- Mike Bickle

topic: Life Experience, Christ, Bible Verse, Passiveness

And the passiveness, you know, the apathy, well, that's not responsible citizenship. When I'm asked, why am I an activist, I say, well that's the rent that I pay for living on this planet, okay?

- Ray McGovern

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Apathy, Pay, Citizenship, Passiveness

Passiveness affects everything. It affects you on the bases and on defense. It affects your thinking. I can't be passive.

- Jimmy Rollins

topic: Thinking, Defense, Passive, Passiveness

A really wise man is feminine, receptive, passive. That's why Buddha looks so feminine. That quality of passiveness, that quality of receptivity... He is just a receptacle. He reflects life: he allows life to reflect in him, to be reflected through him. He sings the song that existence wants to sing through him. He has no ideas of his own; he does not hinder.

- Rajneesh

topic: Wise, Song, Men, Receptivity, Passiveness

The anything-goes passiveness of the religious and political Left is matched by the preachy moralism of the religious and political Right. The person who uncritically embraces any party line is guilty of an idolatrous surrender of her core identity as Abba's Child. Neither liberal fairy dust nor conservative hardball addresses our ragged human dignity.

- Brennan Manning

topic: Religious, Children, Party, Matched, Abba

At one of the largest advertising agencies in America psychologists on the staff are probing sample humans in an attempt to find how to identify, and beam messages to, people of high anxiety, body consciousness, hostility, passiveness, and so on.

- Vance Packard

source: Vance Packard (1991). “The Hidden Persuaders”

topic: Agency, America, People, Probing, Passiveness