Quotes About Activity

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

The hardest work is to go idle.

Idleness is the mother of vice.

Busier than a Mosquito at a Nudist Colony

If I stitch fast enough, does it count as aerobic exercise?

All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.

Be useful each day and take control of your own health. Laziness and apathy can settle into your spirit if you aren't paying attention.

Shopping tip: You can get shoes for 85¢ at the bowling alley.

I think skipping could be the answer to many of our adult health problems.

...he certainly made those long legs go! Hoppity-skip he went, hoppity-skip, down the street, and around the corner...

If you've lost your enthusiasm, there's no better place to find it than on a skipping excursion. And, you may just find your lost youth as well!

Skipping exercises our happiness muscles.

Skipping chases away the blues, and happiness will come chasing after you.

Skipping turns your legs into built-in pogo sticks.

If I were a doctor, skipping might just be my number one prescription.

Skipping is just a dancing walk, or if you prefer, a walking dance.

...children love to skip. The freedom and joy of getting off the floor as one does in a skip adds a great deal to the pleasure...

The believing we do something when we do nothing, is the first illusion of tobacco.

For many, hectic activity provides a kind of perpetual adrenalin rush. Often those consumed by busyness feel as though this pattern of life and work legitimizes them. They feel important; they feel needed; they feel alive. However, they have a false sense of life and importance, and eventually it leaves them feeling hollow. It

MEN AND WOMEN who did almost nothing for a large part of the year tend not to figure prominently in history books. Studies and museums naturally highlight enterprise and undervalue the art of remaining idle for months on end.

Shakespeare said all the world is a stage... I think its a gym.

Real spiritual growth comes only through discipline and perseverance. In other words, it comes through sticking with it. One of the traps for all of us, however, is substituting activity for genuine fellowship with God. I

The church today has been compared to a football game with twenty-two people on the field in desperate need of rest, and fifty thousand people in the stands in desperate need of exercise.

Around them small animals scampered along knotted cables and flaking vines, chirruping, squealing, venting yellow farts. Everywhere was animation, purpose, hurry. Momentum.