(1765 quotes found)
“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.”
Calvin Coolidge
“If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.”
Peter McWilliams
“There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night.”
William James
“Activity conquers cold, but stillness conquers heat”
Lao Tzu
“The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.”
William J. H. Boetcker
“I have a huge, active imagination, [and] I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.”
Claire Danes
“Why indeed must ''God'' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.”
Mary Daly
“It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone... The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.”
W. Edwards Deming
“We believe that according the name "investors" to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a "romantic”
Warren Buffett