(1743 quotes found)
“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
“Activity conquers cold, but stillness conquers heat”
Lao Tzu
“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.”
Calvin Coolidge
“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
“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
“Active Evil is better than Passive Good.”
William Blake
“The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“Now I begin to feel that all that is important comes in quietness and waiting; and that activity should be only the working out, the digesting and putting forth of what one learned, so that one may become empty again to receive more.”
Rodney Collin
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