Quotes About Being Passive

#1. My mom is very good at being passive-aggressive, and my Dad is a total wiseass, so I think the mixture of the two of them is my comedy. But, I am definitely the first comedian in my family.

Amy Schumer

#2. Organisation, far from creating authority, is the only cure for it and the only means whereby each of us will get used to taking an active and conscious part in collective work, and cease being passive instruments in the hands of leaders.

Errico Malatesta

#3. 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 mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.

Eve Ensler

#4. 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

#5. I know that I brought this all on myself. I know that I deserve this. I'd do anything not to be this way. I'd do anything to make it up to everyone. And to not have to see a psychiatrist, who explains to me about being passive aggressive.

Stephen Chbosky

#6. I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive.

Cyndi Lee

#7. I realized that if I was ever going to achieve anything in life, I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it. I don't believe you can achieve anything by being passive. I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me. Michael Jordan

Skip Bertman

#8. Not responding verbally isn't necessarily being passive. we are communicating on many levels simultaneously

Waking Life

#9. Progress rarely comes as a result of being passive.

Marc Morial

#10. Fine! He is being passive aggressive with me, and it's gonna backfire; I'm gonna be active friendly.

Natalya Vorobyova

#11. But I also am pragmatic. Sometimes not doing something is a violence because you're complicit in whatever injustices your government is engaged in. By being passive, you're being violent.

Sarah Lilton

#12. Being passive doesn't mean being subservient. Her power lay in how well she chose to respond. There was no subservience involved.

Victoria Hislop

#13. 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 so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.

Fulton J. Sheen

#14. As I have defined it, love is the antithesis of laziness. Ordinary laziness is a passive failure to love. Some ordinarily lazy people may not lift a finger to extend themselves unless they are compelled to do so. Their being is a manifestation of nonlove; still, they are not evil.

M. Scott Peck

#15. The distribution of the market is fat-tailed relative to the normal distribution ... For passive investors, none of this matters, beyond being aware that outlier returns are more common than would be expected if return distributions were normal.

Eugene Fama

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

Simone De Beauvoir

#17. I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.

Kathy Acker

#18. Where there seems to be a difference between guys being nuts and women being nuts is that guys are much more open in calling each other on stuff; lots of insults and dirty names. Whereas women will talk frankly and honesty, but there also seems to be more passive aggressiveness.

Paul Feig

#19. I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

Sylvia Plath

#20. Most people are passive aggressive in this world. I have the idea that the human being is born with a kind of reservoir of aggression. We are inherently somewhat aggressive creatures and we either channel that in direct ways or we channel it in indirect ways and become passive aggressive.

Robert Greene

#21. The single problem plaguing all students in all schools everywhere is the crisis of disconnection. Meaningful Student Involvement happens when the roles of students are actively re-aligned from being the passive recipients of schools to becoming active partners throughout the educational process.

Adam Fletcher

#22. Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design.

John Herschel

#23. As the African American theologian James Cone notes, "Far from being songs of passive resignation, the spirituals are black freedom songs which emphasize black liberation as consistent with divine revelation.

James Martin

#24. Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more.

Gwen Stefani

#25. Being is not passive; it takes focused awareness.

Maureen Murdock

#26. Being gentle doesn't stop us fighting for our dreams.

Fennel Hudson

#27. Boys' brains are being digitally rewired for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they're totally out of sync in traditional classes, which are analog, static, interactively passive.

Philip Zimbardo

#28. Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive.

Clay Shirky

#29. When I was in high school, I was the guy directing plays after class. I started my first theater company at 19, and my second theater company at 21. I've always been a guy who doesn't do well with the passive nature of being an actor.

Matthew Lillard

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

Jason Silva

#31. It seems Korean women are enjoying a passive and fragile status, intoxicated by appearance. Not only feminism, but any serious discourse ends up being swept away by popular culture in Korea.

Kim Hyesoon

#32. What happened to the good old days of "Woman as passive recipient?" What happened to being courted? What happened to sitting back under a parasol and granting someone a chance to try to win us over?

Cathy Guisewite

#33. Women receive messages from childhood that they may be rewarded and protected for maintaining a childlike comportment such as being demure, obedient, passive and subservient.

Bryant McGill

#34. I think what happened to me was that I was always being taught to look, but one day I started to see. And it was because a lot of women in my life were refusing just to be looked at, to be this passive figure.

Junot Diaz

#35. I've always believed it right for young people to drink. Not to be alcoholic of course, that is a passive state of being, not a positive action. But it is good to drink to excess.

Stephen Fry

#36. You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.

Mahatma Gandhi

#37. Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western women into a harem slave.

Fatema Mernissi

#38. Your life was meant for more than being a life-long doormat for deadbeats, losers, gossipers, nay-sayers, dream-crushers, energy vampires, users, abusers, ragers and passive-aggressive backstabbers.

Bryant McGill

#39. To continue to condemn only brings condemnation, then, for self. This does not mean that self's activity should be passive, but rather being constant in prayer
knowing and taking, knowing and understanding that he that is faithful is not given a burden beyond that he is able to bear ...

Edgar Cayce

#40. Being popular doesn't always win spiritual change. Christ didn't pour out the coins of the moneychangers and overturn their tables with any degree of manners when he cleansed the temple. His harshness drew a point - to make people realize how much better they could become.

Shannon L. Alder

#41. Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#42. 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.

Jeremiah Burroughs

#43. I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.

A.S. Byatt

#44. Being meek does not make you weak. You're not someone who sways with changing circumstances. You don't allow yourself to be used. You're not passive or spineless. Your faith is in the Almighty, so you know that you are mighty.

Toni Sorenson

#45. Verbs come in two types, active and passive. With an active verb, the subject of the sentence is doing something. With a passive verb, something is being done to the subject of the sentence.

Stephen King

#46. Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.

Simone De Beauvoir

#47. 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.

Pele

#48. Many of the women who I've taught to climb have a better sense of balance than the men. I think it has to do with being a little more sensitive to it rather than relying on strenght. It's also a reflection of a passive attitude - balancing your way up the rock, rather than attacking it.

Lynn Hill

#49. That's what lordship is - Christ reigning as supreme authority over our life. Making Jesus Lord of our life is not something passive. It's not a state of being, it's a state of doing. Those whom Jesus recognizes as His own are those who do the will of His Father in heaven.

Keith Green

#50. The man who is kind and who practices righteousness, who remains passive against the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own self, he attains the Immortal Being; the true God is ever with him.

Kabir