Quotes About Activity

Get out from that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans. Well, roll my breakfast cause I'm a hungry man.

Published memoirs indicate the end of a man's activity, and that he acknowledges the end.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

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.

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

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

I don't take breaks, man, I'm always doing something.

Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.

A man who went to the 'footie' match on Saturday afternoon and played eighteen holes of golf was really doing his duty by the nation.

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

In theory an addictive relationship can be established with just about anything, so long as the substance, person, or activity relieves the threat of overt depression

It's all in the attitude — housework is exercise. Slim your way to a clean home, clean your way to a slim body!

If I had time for only two exercises, I would choose yoga and skipping.

Exercise, play, move. Stretch, feel, reach, sweat. Skip, dance, hug! Use the body God gave you, don't let it rot.

I was a kid who loved to play games. Any kind of game, any kind of ball. Give me a baseball, give me a basketball, give me something I can bounce and throw.

I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.

The King's private, and preferred, life was that of a country squire. In cultural or intellectual pursuits he had no interest whatsoever; he loathed travel. George V was never happier than when shooting at Balmoral or at Sandringham.

Today it is seen as arrogant, alien and improper to engage in private activity without any evident ulterior motive. Not to be 'after' something is almost suspect: no help to others in the rat-race is acknowledged unless legitimized by counterclaims.

A mind too active is no mind at all.

But a man whose business is sedentary should get some kind of exercise if he wishes to keep himself in as good physical trim as his brethren who do manual labor.

Life is about doing, not thinking about doing.