Best Activity Quotes

Man’s nature is evil; goodness is the result of conscious activity.

Empathy is not simply a matter of trying to imagine what others are going through, but having the will to muster enough courage to do something about it. In a way, empathy is predicated upon hope.

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

The imperial projects will continue, Wall Street will be unimpeded in its malfeasance and criminal activity, social programs will continue to be cut, maybe not at the same speed as under a Republican Administration, but it’s all headed in the same direction.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

To feel more fulfilled your actions and activities need to be in alignment with what you deem important.

My attitude of love must not be sacrificed on the altar of activity.

Soccer is one of the most unifying activities amongst us.

Never confuse activity with accomplishment.

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning.

Fundraising is a very rich and beautiful activity. It is a confident, joyful and hope-filled expression of ministry. In ministering to each other, each from the riches that he or she possesses, we work together for the full coming of God’s Kingdom.

Passion, intellect, moral activity – these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.

Be committed to whatever you’re doing. That’s something I’ve taken to heart and tried to do with whatever activities I take up.

Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future.

Compassion and love constitute non-violence in action. They are the source of all spiritual qualities: forgiveness, tolerance, all the virtues. They give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive. There is nothing amazing about being rich or highly educated; only when the individual has a warm heart do these attributes become worthwhile.

All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.

Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawal.

There’s no architect who doesn’t want to build a library – and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading – because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity – that is a very exciting area in architecture.

Selfish people are, by definition, those whose activities are devoted to bringing themselves happiness. Yet. . . these selfish people are far less likely to be happy than those whose efforts are devoted to making others happy.

But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic.

Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.

The desire to transcend one’s own ego boundaries, to share completely, even for a moment, the consciousness of another person must be a universal longing. It motivates many of our activities from taking drugs to making love, and lies behind the search for new ways of getting close to one another that is so intense in our society today.

Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying – half unconsciously, perhaps – to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

At the same time, on the networks, there are thousands of groups that are building lifestreams, or lifestreaming for themselves in their own way. We’d love to see this activity.

All good activities which encourage people to learn how to live with one another pleasantly and to develop a sense of humor improve living.

There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings.

History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.

We shall succeed only so far as we continue to undertake the intolerable labor of thought — that most distasteful of all our activities.

He who gives you the diameter of your knowledge,presc ribes the circumference of your activities.