Top 48 Quotes About Inactive
#1. A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive.
Anthony Burgess
#2. The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.
Alice James
#3. You can't remain inactive in the face of injustice without, to some extent, being guilty of it.
Rae Foley
#4. The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#5. We shall at all times chance upon men of recondite acquirements, but whose qualifications, from the incommunicative and inactive habits of their owners, are as utterly useless to others as though the possessors had them not.
Charles Caleb Colton
#6. There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.
John Steinbeck
#7. It is time to train British workers for the British jobs that will be available over the coming few years and to make sure that people who are inactive and unemployed are able to get the new jobs on offer in our country.
Gordon Brown
#8. But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours
that's another matter.
H.G.Wells
#9. There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
Ramana Maharshi
#10. Coaches coach guys on the field. I get to spend time with practice squad receivers and tight ends or a young center who's always inactive on Sundays ... I feel really good about having an impact on those guys and their careers.
Matt Hasselbeck
#11. If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.
Francis Crick
#12. You know not what you are capable of doing; you cannot sound the ocean of thought within you. You must labor, keep at it, and dig deep and long before you will begin to realize much. Be inactive - mourn because you were not created a giant in intellect, and you will die a fool.
L.G. Abell
#13. All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.
Sun Tzu
#14. I think everybody I've seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably, it's very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They're not really interested in the person; he doesn't relate to the person.
Irvin D. Yalom
#16. Young men do not usually become inactive in the Church because they are given too many significant things to do.
Spencer W. Kimball
#17. John Calvin said: "It is the nature of faith that we want to bring others to share eternal life with us when we have become partakers of it. The knowledge of God cannot lie buried and inactive in our hearts and not be made known to men."6
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Richard D. Phillips
#18. Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before.
Mahatma Gandhi
#19. For the inactive windmills, even the winds from the bird wings is a hope!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#20. Cooking is the best way to unwind at the end of a long writing day. There's something mindless and hands-on about cooking, which makes it feel like the very opposite of writing, which is heady but inactive.
Lauren Kate
#21. Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use.
Samuel Johnson
#22. God has given us a vision to see the body of Christ move from being an inactive audience to a Spirit-filled army ... God is about to unloose a powerful outpouring of the Holy Spirit of an unprecedented magnitude ... He is looking for individuals who will be 'dread champions' for his cause.
John Wimber
#23. Speaking of our unkind labeling of each other with, "she is divorced, she used to be inactive, etc", asked, "Can't we get over this hardening of the categories?".
Sheri L. Dew
#24. Stability can only be attained by inactive matter.
Marie Curie
#25. I first noticed my varicose veins when I was pregnant with my second child, and I'd always thought that it was something that affected older, inactive people. I looked at my lifestyle and thought, 'I can't be a candidate for this.' Eventually, the pain became something I couldn't ignore.
Summer Sanders
#26. Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#27. There is no inactive learning, just as there is no inactive reading.
Mortimer J. Adler
#28. There's no such thing as passivity. You're either consciously inactive or unconsciously inactive. In both cases, you're interfering with a certain outcome and contributing to your fate.
Robin Sacredfire
#29. If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt, if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius; and Fancy herself would lie muffled up in her robe, inactive, pale, and bloated.
Walter Savage Landor
#30. The concept of an inactive church member is an oxymoron. Biblically, no such church member really exists.
Thom S. Rainer
#31. The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the "know-nothings" - must win.
Warren Buffett
#32. The inactive must justify their sloth by picking nits with those making an attempt -
Dave Eggers
#33. The inactive viewer's screen is the color of way out over the Atlantic looking straight down on a cold day.
David Foster Wallace
#34. The way that is bright seems dull. The way forward seems to lead back. The smooth way seems rough. The highest virtue seems a valley. The purest whiteness seems stained. Excessive virtue seems defective. Solid virtue seems inactive.
Lao-Tzu
#35. I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on military teams, I was ready to start for the Indians just two days later, against the Tigers.
Bob Feller
#36. Be a busy person. People who are active are often much more at peace with themselves than those who are inactive and inert.
Wayne Dyer
#37. In times of political confusion, and under an arbitrary government, many will prefer to keep their capital inactive, concealed, and unproductive, either of profit or gratification, rather than run the risk of its display. This latter evil is never felt under a good government.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#38. When entering on new ground we must not be afraid to express even risky ideas so as to stimulate research in all directions. As Priestley put it, we must not remain inactive through false modesty based on fear of being mistaken.
Claude Bernard
#39. God helps those who work, not those who are idle. No one helps an inactive person, but one who joins in the labor. The good God himself will bring ... work to perfection.
Saint John Chrysostom
#40. To be inactive while engaged in activity is the real inactivity (non-doership)!
Dada Bhagwan
#41. Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.
Stephen R. Covey
#42. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that is another matter.
H.G.Wells
#43. For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.
Mary McCarthy
#45. Don't be the person who has an overflowing cup of knowledge but an inactive state of action. That serves no-one, that serves no purpose.
Tony Curl
#46. Krishna taught in the Bhadavad Gita: 'karmanyeva-adhikaraste ma phalesu kadachana', which means, 'Be active, never be inactive, and don't react to the outcome of the work.
Anonymous
#47. It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
Samuel Johnson
#48. Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.
V.S. Pritchett
