Active Quotes

Active minds that think and study, like swift brooks are seldom muddy.

I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.

To place your name by gift or bequest in the keeping of an active educational institution is to...make a permanent contribution to the welfare of humanity.

As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to be also heavily socially active offline; they’re just, well, social people.

Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.

[I am a co - creator], an active agent in this universe who makes things happen. If I want the world to change, I have to change it.

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts.

Let us move forward with strong and active faith.

Your life can be horrible or it can be incredibly beautiful. It can be boring or exciting. It's seldom in between. Your active use of will determines what will happen to you in this and other lives.

Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that is good, is its own reward.

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

I love being athletic and doing things that are active, even when I'm traveling.

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

The bottom line is we are trying to do what's right. We don't just say we believe in God - we have active relationships with God.

The Luxembourg financial centre is based on several pillars, we are characterised by the breadth of our product range, we are an active participant in the international credit business.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]

The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".

Active learning is always involved with interaction between teachers and students and Socratic methods and that's gonna continue.

My outlook on life is to be true. To take risks. To love the shadows as well as the light. To find your task. To recognise your task. To be active.

I think that I will continue being an active and restless soul. And I think that what I do which is to help people nurture their potential not only for themselves, but also for the world.

It's really important to be active in your community, whatever community that is... find allies and find people who you relate to and who make you stronger as a group.

The past has passed; the time for grace is now! Let's respond to the grace of this moment with the gifts of the Spirit active in our lives.

Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her for the future.

I always preach that you have to be active as a citizen no matter what, and some people just voting as an excuse not to do anything.

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.

I'm passionate about health, nutrition, fitness, and inspiring people to live a healthy and active lifestyle.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

I give extraordinary attention to military active duty, reserve and National Guard, and their families.

Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.

We shall be better, braver, and more active if we believe it right to look for what we don't know.

Love is active and sincere, courageous, patient, faithful, prudent and manly.

... the best way to own common stocks is through an index fund.

One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.

For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.

Let's face it: The Jewish community is the most active political community in American society.

Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.

Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.

Our nation will succeed or fail to the degree that all of us - citizens and businesses alike - are active participanats in building strong, sustainable and enriching communities.

I too am a member of the human race, (but admittedly not a very active member).

I'm definitely musician and storyteller. But I always like to take an active role in things I care about socially and environmentally.

Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

You either fight active evil or you accept it. Doing nothing is acceptance. There is no in-between.

You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.

Our hunger signal will remain active until we take in an adequate supply of nourishment.