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Quotes About Activity

We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
~ Cesare Pavese
Even up here on Vancouver on the weekends, I go work out in a studio space.
~ Dule Hill
I never work out. I think it is boring, so I run.
~ Izabella Scorupco
It's better to wear out than rust out.
~ Rich Harland
The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
~ Adam Sedgwick
The more we work the more we need to pray. In this day of activity there is great danger, not of doing too much, but of praying too little for so much work.
~ Alexander MacLaren
I bring my bike to work, and I make laps around our parking lot on my lunch break.
~ Angela Kinsey
It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.
~ Aristotle
I find golf very relaxing. It's a way to get away from work and get outside. It's a lot of fun, and once you get going it's almost kind of addictive.
~ Bill Gates
Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work.
~ Charlie Gehringer
I chop and change between what is called 'work' and what is called 'recreation.' There are no discontinuities in my day. I only play tennis with people I find interesting.
~ David Deutsch
The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and the sudden acquisition of wealth.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
A little work, a little play, To keep us going - and so, good-day!
~ George du Maurier
If a train stops at a train station, what do you think happens at a work station?
~ Hal Varian
It is work which gives flavor to life.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.
~ Hesiod
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
~ James Mackintosh
I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.
~ Jared Diamond
The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.
~ John George Nicolay
I just hate going to the gym, unless I need to do cardio once in a while. I think gymming makes you stiff and takes your aura away.
~ Esha Gupta
As an older lineman, if you start to sit around, you get stiff. You get tired. Things start to set in.
~ Andrew Whitworth
It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.
~ Eddie Bernice Johnson
Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.
~ John Ortberg