Quotes About Activity

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear.

All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.

Tush! Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers: be assured We come to use our hands and not our tongues.

The happiness and unhappiness of our lives depends not on what we feel but on what we do, just as good and bad consists not in feeling but in doing.

Life is more fun if you play games.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advancement may for the most part be overcome by steady good conduct, honest zeal, activity, perseverance and above all, by a determined resolution to surmount

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.

The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

In every job that must be done there is an element of fun.

There is a big difference being tired and being bored.

If I stress this episode, it is because it sets the scene for the kind of activity the narrator is to observe with some bafflement in the salons and dinner parties he is to attend. The point is emphasized in the predilection of society people for the theatricals, recitations, and fancy-dress balls that are frequently referred to.

I like a man to do something with his ten fingers. I do not like the useless creatures who are always self-important or agitators. A fatuous breed!

Yo no era más que el instrumento de unos hábitos de no trabajar.

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.

Never less idle than when wholly idle, nor less alone than when wholly alone.

Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine ? that is, activity ? which could solve it, is seen as odious. Archery? It is too cold, and besides, the butts need re-covering; the rats have been at the straw. Music? To hear it is tedious; to compose it, too taxing. And so on. Of all the afflictions, boredom is ultimately the most unmanning. Eventually, it transforms you into a great nothing who does nothing ? a cousin to sloth and a brother to melancholy.

An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.