Passive Action Quotes

Patience is also a form of action.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

to not act is a choice too

And what? What's the other choice? To passively let things happen and then say: "Tut-tut, what at botch that was"? Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll chose as we think they should?

Don't try to steer the river.

Passive resistance is the resistance which does not resist.

The gentlest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world. That which has no substance enters where there is no space. This shows the value of non-action. Teaching without words, performing without actions: that is the Master's way.

Sometimes doing nothing is doing something.

A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.

Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.

It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage

The cell never acts; it reacts.

Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.

I didn’t drift; I moved left just by standing still.

The vigorous man industriously striving for the improvement of his condition acts neither more nor less than the lethargic man who sluggishly takes things as they come. For to do nothing and to be idle are also action, they too determine the course of events.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means.

In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.

It's almost as easy to stand up as it is to sit down.

Men argue. Nature acts.

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of 'passive action,' the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.

I'm really interested in passivity as a type of action - sort of allowing the situation to change you, choosing to give in being an act of agency rather than an act of submission.

I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam.