Active Life Quotes
23 quotes by 22 authors
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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
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Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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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
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The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.
— Mother Teresa
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: