Experience is not worth the getting. It’s not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you–it’s a wall that an active you runs up against.

I drank the coffee because I was tired. I also drank the coffee because I was dominant, and it was passive and put up no fight.

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances—it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

Guilt loves the passive.

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

Having a passive personality, is a soft way to live a dead life.

Progress across the time axis is passive. Progress up the results axis is passion.

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

This is not the time to be passive. This is the time to shape, sculpt, paint, participate… the time to get sweaty, to get dirty, to fall in love, to forgive, to forget, to hug,...

Every advancing step I take toward my goal of comfort is yet another retreating step I take away from God’s goal of the impossible.

The sea, the sea…Man alone,Passive, unawareIn his elemental sadness.

Active love doesn’t ask: ‘What does this person have to offer me?’ Rather: ‘What do I have to offer this person?

Your daily output is directly proportional to your daily thoughts while your activity or passivity remains as a constant. You get what you think to do provided you do it!