Quotes About Activity

There is time for every sacred activity under the sun.

One of the favors life can do on you is to keep you busy.

If you keep an active life, you stay young.

A confident leader is like a duck. Above the water, he is calm and poised while below the water, he is driven by a flurry of focused activity.

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

We were terrified to stop, stop anything, and admit that something was wrong. Activity, frenzied activity, seemed to be the thing we all felt we needed. Only Dad slowed down, and that wasn't until he was trapped in a hospital getting intravenous antibiotics. Everything would be all right, everything would be possible, anything could be salvaged or averted, as long as we all kept running around.

Exercise, done properly, not only isn't dangerous but promotes our health. Furthermore, the benefits of exercise will probably spill over into other areas of our life. We are likely, for example, to find that we have more energy than we used to. Our self-esteem is also likely to rise.

All nature awakes to life and activity.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

Absence of occupation is not rest,A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.

in Altruria every one works with his hands, so that the hard work shall not all fall to any one class; and this manual labor of each is sufficient to keep the body in health, as well as to earn a living. After the three, hours' work, which constitutes a day's work with us, is done, the young people have all sorts of games and sports, and they carry them as late into life as the temperament of each demands.

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

work was his restorative.

Repose is necessary to great efforts, and he who is never idle, labours in vain!

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

The snowmobiles were out in force on Iron Lake, zipping about the ice like ants frenzying on a frosted cake. In summer it was motorboats and Jet Skis and sailboats. No matter what the season the lake had little peace.

it attempts to show that the necessary conditions of logical and mathematical reasoning, which undergird the natural sciences as a human activity, require the rejection of all broadly materialist worldviews. Reppert

In this book I argue that all progress, both theoretical and practical, has resulted from a single human activity: the quest for what I call good explanations.

History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.

Loving to rush around is not proof someone is hardworking—it's only the restlessness of an agitated mind.