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Quotes About Activity

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
~ Herman Melville
God helps those who work, not those who are idle. No one helps an inactive person, but one who joins in the labor. The good God himself will bring...work to perfection.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
~ St. Jerome
The opposite of play is not work. It's depression.
~ Brian Sutton-Smith
I'm the walkingest girl around. I like to work at it - really get my heart pounding.
~ Amy Yasbeck
If there is work there is warmth, that when a man has freedom of movement it is enough, for then his blood is hot too
~ John Fante
He who does not work shall not eat
~ Vladimir Lenin
Get up. Go to work. Play the game. Get showered. Go home.
~ Paul Scholes
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
~ Thomas Aquinas
I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.
~ Ben Stiller
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
~ Mark Twain
Whatever kind of workout you settle on, it should include the Big Three of exercise for health and fitness-aerobics, resistance exercises, and stretching.
~ Jane Fonda
Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.
~ Brian Swimme
Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.
~ Henry Ford
While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.
~ Sri Aurobindo
When I'm looking for an idea, I'll do anything--clean the closet, mow the lawn, work in the garden.
~ Kevin Henkes
Missionary activity is not so much the work of the church as simply the Church at work.
~ David Bosch
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
~ Bob Hope
Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.
~ Zane Grey
I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights.
~ Bob Iger
A lot of people don't realize that when you're trying to lose weight, or just trying to stay fit, 85 percent of it is what you eat, and 15 percent of it is how you work out.
~ Ciara
None of the activity stolen by work can be regained by submitting to what work has produced. - The Society of The Spectacle
~ Guy Debord
The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you're not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley