Activity Quote by William James

Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.

— John Dewey

Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy…

— Napoleon Hill

“We must limit the running to and fro which most men practise, rambling about houses, theatres, and marketplaces. They mind other men's business, and…

— Seneca

For men are prone to go it blind along the calf-paths of the mind To do what other men have done. They follow in…

— Sam Walter Foss

The exertions that men find it necessary to make, in order to support themselves or families, frequently awaken faculties that might otherwise have lain…

— Thomas Malthus

These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.

— John Ruskin

Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end.

— Jacob Viner

Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.

— Confucius

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

— Edwin Louis Cole