Active Participation Quotes

I have no intention of being a potted plant, and just getting watered every so often.

It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Make your own fun. As opposed to consume fun like a package of Spam.

I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example. Every time something is observed and not fixed, or when one has a chance to give in some way and does not, there is a lie being told, the same lie we all know by heart but which needn't be reiterated.

Film has become a very passive experience, but with theatre, there is a contract made with the audience, where they participate. That's why my parents' puppet theatre was such a special place - people used their imaginations. It's a muscle that needs using.

If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.

Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.

The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing class is composed of the strong men who take the trouble to do the work of government; and if you are too timid or too fastidious or too careless to do your part in this work, then you forfeit your right to be considered one of the governing and you become one of the governed insteadone of the driven cattle of the political arena.

I don't want to be the passively alert vegetable in the corner that takes in everything but can't communicate, which I think would suck a lot of life out of my family without giving very much to me.

Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.

I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.

Offering thoughts and prayers are a valuable way to let loved ones know you care, but no one should offer them at the expense of action.

One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.

I despise lackadaisical behavior when it comes to our music. I mean, this is heavy metal music. You must be involved. You're required to be involved.

The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.

You can't stand around and wait to be asked to dance.

Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.

You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.

It is important to be involved in everything.

It is in keeping with their dignity as persons that human being should take an active part in government.

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.