Active Quote by Ananda Coomaraswamy

The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out…

— Henry Parry Liddon

The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make…

— Erich Fromm

A man's prime interest in life must be his work.

— Laurence Olivier

Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life.

— Erich Fromm

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

— Thomas Mann

“An active life serves the purpose of giving man the opportunity to realize values in creative work, while a passive life of enjoyment affords…

— Viktor E. Frankl

If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the…

— Aristotle

Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his work, starved,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We all have obligations and duties toward our fellow men. But it does seem curious enough that in modern neurotic society, men's energies are…

— Lin Yutang

A man’s life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose…

— John Burroughs