Active Quotes

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I am here on behalf of all the patients that I have ever met, all the ones I haven't met. This is about letting patients… — Dave deBronkart
No profession or occupation is more pleasing than the military; a profession or exercise both noble in execution (for the strongest, most generous and proudest… — Michel de Montaigne
In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with others in community, and from… — Charles R. Swindoll
To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not… — Bernard Iddings Bell
If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual… — Kofi Annan
We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who… — Maria Montessori
Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect… — David Hume
It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends. — E. W. Howe
Fifty is a big corner to turn. It used to mean being put out to pasture, but it's the opposite with me. I feel more… — Jamie Lee Curtis
Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people can organize to… — Noam Chomsky
The child's conquest of independence begins with his first introduction to life. While he is developing, he perfects himself and overcomes every obstacle that he… — Maria Montessori
A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology. — H. L. Mencken
The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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… — Jacques Barzun
Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living. — Josiah Royce
A healthy loyalty is not passive and complacent, but active and critical. — Harold Laski
Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state. — Bob Cousy
Would the potential attraction to Mormonism by simply having a Mormon in the White House threaten traditional Christianity by leading more Americans to a church… — Rick Santorum

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