Quotes About Activity

Oftentimes, what causes old people to become poor walkers is poor walking. One must bend one's knees. One must lift one's feet up. One must be unceasing. One mustn't shuffle.

Life is for participating, not for spectating.

What in the hell are you doing running around the parking lot at this hour?" he asked. A not unreasonable question.

It was the study hour. Most of the monks were reading. A few were meditating, an activity that was suspiciously similar to dozing.

Lenin's idea of relaxation was to sit down with a foreign-language dictionary for an hour or two.

A man should have a hobby. It keeps him out of trouble. -Madeleine Pilaster

The children and some of the adults played chess and nine-men's-morris to while away the evening

tennis courts.

There's a Monopoly game going on in the day room. They've been at it for three days

It was one of those mornings when you realize, with chilling clarity, that birding is a ridiculous activity.

The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.

We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing it, to guide his natural activity.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity.

I'm very, very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing, any hint of any kind of unethical activity there. Very pleased to be cleared of any of that.

The masses have yet to realize that generating your own electricity is a potentially hazardous activity to engage in.

There is a time to fish and a time to mend nets.

We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.

Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.

Prayer need not be an activity we engage in for only an hour each morning. Rather, let us live in the atmosphere of prayer, our hearts continually being lifted up in prayer to Him.

Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality and the essential nature of prayer is faith.

Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

I cannot suppose there is anybody here who would think it either a good life, or an amusing one, to sit with one's hands before one doing nothing - to live like a gentleman, as fools call it.