Active Life Quotes

23 quotes by 22 authors

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… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the… — Paramahansa Yogananda
The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life. — Mother Teresa
Though I may not be a king in my future life, so much the better: I shall nevertheless live an active life and, on top… — Frederick The Great
Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and… — Leonard Bernstein
The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialisation within the specialty, of a… — Alvin Lustig
Live an active life among people who are doing worthwhile things, keep eyes and ears and mind and heart open to absorb truth, and then… — Dale Carnegie
Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years'… — William Banting
In the active life all the vices are first of all to be removed by the practice of good works, so that in the contemplative… — Isidore of Seville
Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life… — Ananda Coomaraswamy
I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a… — Rene Cassin
The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of philosophers… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
You know, Monsieur, that, although the contemplative life is more perfect than the active life, it is not, however, more so than one which embraces… — Vincent de Paul
The anorexic is the fuse nakedly exposed to the direct power of modern media, a psyche whose wiring has no insulation. The anorexic is an… — Kenny Smith
Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are… — Thomas Aquinas
For in order that man may do well, whether in the works of the active life, or in those of the contemplative life, he needs… — Thomas Aquinas
As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents… — Lee Haney
Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have… — Alice Walker
The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation. — Josef Pieper

Who Wrote These Active Life Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 23 Active Life Quotes as follows: