Active Quotes

I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of health and energy.

Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.

Blissfulness does not compel you to behave in any particular way. Out of bliss, I can laugh or cry; I can sit quietly or be active in the world.

When I was young, before school, my father would wake me up and we would go running together. A love of being physical, being active and being outside was something he instilled in me.

When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don't vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.

I did other stuff before then, but I was sexually active at 20. I'm glad I waited for the right person, because you look back and you go, 'That girl was bats– crazy. I'm glad I didn't go there.'

To be active is the primary vocation of man.

I think heroes are important in the lives of kids because it shows a child what to become, it shows a child what's possible; it shows a child not just by theory but by active example.

The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls.

At the end of the day, one of the most politically active voters in the country, seniors, will know who stood with them and who didn't.

I'm happy when people decide that they are more aligned with me and my party but they should also think about being active and aligned with the parties that disagree with me on certain issues.

I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me

I think concerns with a member of Congress with a cabinet official being active in business. I don't see why it wouldn't apply to the president.

The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners.

If I had criteria, it would just be that I want to play active people who can solve problems, not people who have things thrust in their lap and need somebody to solve their problems for them.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do.

Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance.

I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way.

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

You've got to keep your body active, even if that means just turning on some music and dancing for an hour. ...That's how you;ll prepare your bodies and your minds for greatness.

Once you can understand where the conversation is, who leads, the type of voices and the best place for you to add your voice, you can then start becoming a more active participant.

The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.

My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I've tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the pricing of derivative securities.

Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.

Old gardeners never die; they just very slowly turn into the most magnificent compost. But what a marvellous, active brew it is!

I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.

Dear brothers and sisters, the Church loves you! Be an active presence in the community, as living cells, as living stones.

The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.

I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.

Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead.

When I first went into the active Army, you could tell someone to move a chair across the room. Now you have to tell them why.

In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification of the passive observers

The more communities in which you are an active participant, the more likely it is that you'll be happy.

For the perception of the beautiful we have the term "taste"--a metaphor taken from that which is passive in the body and transferred to that which is active in the mind.

The Author is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.

Exercise is not enough. Working out three times a week is not enough. Being active throughout the day is what keeps you healthy.

I'm not very good at resting on my laurels. I am a bit of a workaholic, and I like to keep busy and active, so I think that's what drives me.

Scientists do what writers do. They also live with an active interiority, only the ongoing speculation in their heads is about relations in the physical world rather than the psychological one.

True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort.

The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the "know-nothings" - must win.

The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.

A Christian's wit is offensive light, A beam that aids, but never grieves the sight; Vig'rous in age as in the flush of youth, 'Tis always active on the side of truth.

As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.

The internet creates chaos and a dangerous kind of piracy but makes the viewer much more active and gives the voice to minority players.

I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.

In my position, I could be a debutante. But we only got to this position by being a politically active family.

The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.