Quotes about Activity
Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.
— Aristotle
Where there are things to be done the end is not to survey and recognize the various things, but rather to do them.
— Aristotle
Anything is better than stagnation.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
A change of work is the best rest.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Assurance of hope is more than life, it is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.
— JC Ryle
All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions is not that goal. It is the means. And for that reason it is the second greatest human activity in the world.
— John Piper
To the dwellers in Eden was committed the care of the garden, "to dress it and to keep it." Their occupation was not wearisome, but pleasant and invigorating. God appointed labor as a blessing to man, to occupy his mind, to strengthen his body, and to develop his faculties. In mental and physical activity Adam found one of the highest pleasures of his holy existence.
— Ellen White
The Creator has prepared no place for the stagnating practice of indolence.
— Ellen White
It's very important for me to wake up and do some form of workout every day.
— Masaba Gupta
There is no space in which worship should not take place, no time when it should not occur, and no activity through which it should not happen.
— Miroslav Volf
The billiard table is better than the doctor.
— Mark Twain
He would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
— Mark Twain