Quotes About Activity

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

In the busy haunts of men.

The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.

The end of man is action.

Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

The only cure for grief is action.

If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

Happiness walks on busy feet.

The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy.

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

It is no rest to be idle.

He is idle that might be better employed.

He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.

For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.

Little wit in the head makes much work for the feet.

I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that extra confidence.

I try and stay limber, swim, run, ride motorcycles.

I'm very active with my kids, so even if I don't go to the gym, I'm lifting them in and out of the tub and out of their high chairs.

I'm not much of a water skier, my legs are too skinny for that, so I just try to tube and have fun, just ride.

I always walk up the escalator on the Tube, and I live in a house with a lot of stairs, and that's good exercise, but you need more than that.

I grew up playing paintball and riding motorcycles and horses, so I really know how to rough and tumble.