Activity Quotes

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein

Beauty, Truth, Children

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Albert Einstein

Love, Results, Wood

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
John F. Kennedy

Fitness, Important, Creative

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
Wayne Dyer

Nothing, Control, Why

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
Jim Morrison

Freedom, Through, Start

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.
Jim Morrison

Freedom, Road, Meaning

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Art, Exist, Aesthetic

Never mistake activity for achievement.
John Wooden

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.
Mark Hopkins

Love, Power, Giving

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
Robert Kennedy

Future, Human, Understand

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardner

Good, Society, Humble

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
Calvin Coolidge

Work, Effort, Means

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing, Terrible, Insight

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Adversity, Means, Fresh

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
Greg Anderson

Focus, Joy, Found

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
Karl Marx

Men, History, Nothing

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
Aldous Huxley

Pain, Laughter, Human

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
Erich Fromm

Love, Started, Hopes

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Love, Nature, Someone

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle

Nothing, Terrible, Insight

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.
Marilyn Manson

Anyone, Looks, Illegal

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.
Norman Mailer

Human, Single, Same

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
Sydney J. Harris

Success, Marriage, Great

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mean, May, Call

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
Albert Schweitzer

Perfection, Ethics, Inner

To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
Thomas Aquinas

Work, Good, Live

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Soul, Ambition, Moderation

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
Indira Gandhi

Learn, Alive, Repose

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

Family, Patience, Society

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
E. O. Wilson

Time, Human, Start

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