Inspirational Quotes on Apathy

“It is the misfortune of kings that they scarcely ever do the good they have a mind to do; and through surprise, and the insinuations of flatterers, they often do the mischief they never intended.”

“A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.”

“I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.”

“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”

“The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.”

“Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.”

“The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.”

“No one is likely to remember what is entirely uninteresting to him.”

“All growth that is not toward God, is growing to decay.”

“Too many, through want of prudence, are golden apprentices, silver journeymen, and copper masters.”

“Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.”

“A life devoted to trifles, not only takes away the inclination, but the capacity for higher pursuits. The truths of Christianity have scarcely more influence on a frivolous than on a profligate character.”

“The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. So blinded are we to our passions, that we suffer more to insure perdition than salvation.”

“It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.”

“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”

“Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.”

“There is no accounting for the ignorance of unbelief, as any minister of Christ knows by painful experience.”

“Neglect does more for the soul than make it miss salvation. It despoils it of its capacity for salvation.”

“I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.”

“The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.”