Active Quotes

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Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing. — Martin Seligman
Promoting active liberty does not mean allowing the majority to run roughshod over minorities. It calls for taking special care that all groups have a… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Take action. Every story you've ever connected with, every leader you've ever admired, every puny little thing that you've ever accomplished is the result of… — Bradley Whitford
I think it's very important for everyone in America to realize right now the state of our country, not just on this issue but on… — Mary Steenburgen
Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind. — Dale Carnegie
The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient. — Warren Buffett
We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most… — Mary Parker Follett
Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation. — Mary Roberts Rinehart
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… — Aristotle
I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and… — Helen Gahagan Douglas
Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek the map to… — Vaclav Havel
Listening is not merely hearing. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is active. — Michael Shurtleff
There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind… — Ramana Maharshi
An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot run with his… — Andre Maurois
I'd like to be a bigger and more knowledgeable person ten years from now than I am today. I think that for all of us… — Clint Eastwood
My times of silence before God are very important to me now. I put everything else down, every word away, and I am with the… — Sheila Walsh
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. — Brian Tracy
If I learned one thing, it is that self-doubt is one of the most destructive forces. It makes you defensive instead of open, reactive instead… — Jennifer Lee
Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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… — Joan Blades

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