These active quotes will inspire you. Active, doing things that require physical movement and energy or pursuing an occupation or activity at a particular place or in a particular way.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging active quotes, active sayings, and active proverbs.
Best Active Quotes
- “I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.” ~ Brian Tracy
- “Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.” ~ Edith Hamilton
- “The most important thing is to remain active and to love what you are doing.” ~ Leslie Caron
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“The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.” ~ Amartya Sen
- “The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes ‘sight-seeing.'” ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
- “The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.” ~ Francis William Newman
- “Active Evil is better than Passive Good.” ~ William Blake
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“Why indeed must ‘God’ be a noun? Why not a verb – the most active and dynamic of all.” ~ Mary Daly
- “I’m always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.” ~ John F. Kennedy
- “A mind too active is no mind at all.” ~ Theodore Roethke
- “Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
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“The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “I was always active – I went from baseball to football. I didn’t have time to work out.” ~ Bo Jackson
- “In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.” ~ Bridget Riley
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“I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.” ~ Andrew Wyeth
- “To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.” ~ Jean Piaget
- “It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.” ~ Charles Edison
- “You are not an active creator of the film.” ~ Sydney Pollack , Not active quotes
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“I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused, and setting goals in whatever I do.” ~ Kiana Tom
- “We have a very active testing community which people don’t often think about when you have open source.” ~ Mitchell Baker
- “It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.” ~ Crystal Eastman
- “What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.” ~ Paddy Ashdown
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“I don’t have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.” ~ Karen Duffy
- “Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.” ~ Cory Doctorow
- “The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.” ~ Claudio Hummes
- “Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don’t think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.” ~ Leonard Baskin
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“The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.” ~ Octavia Spencer
- “It’s important to be active in the causes that are important to you… That’s how we make changes in this world.” ~ Cameron Diaz
- “It is necessary for us to understand that the only Active Principle is Spirit.” ~ Ernest Holmes
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“Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.” ~ Charlotte Bronte
- “Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.” ~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- “None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.” ~ William Jennings Bryan
- “I think, Larry, one of the things is I’m a very active person.” ~ Joan Collins
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“Capital is a result of labor and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.” ~ Henry George
- “Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.” ~ Nelson Mandela
- “Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.” ~ Alan Rickman
- “The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.” ~ William Bartram
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“The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.” ~ William Gurnall
- “We must lead in a different way… We must have an active president, who gives strong direction and works with the government for its implementation.” ~ Lionel Jospin
- “My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.” ~ Henry Taube
- “Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that’s in general a feature of intellectually active places.” ~ John Searle
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“The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts.” ~ Philip Warren Anderson
- “Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time – or never.” ~ James Baker
- “I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.” ~ Jack L. Chalker
- “If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it’s got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.” ~ Dan Glickman
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“Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.” ~ Ralph Cudworth
- “But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.” ~ Studs Terkel
- “I was very active but I was dyslexic and had a really hard time at school.” ~ Ashley Scott
- “I was very active in the peace movement, still am.” ~ Margot Kidder
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“The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.” ~ Libby Houston
- “Most women don’t play like guys do: they don’t wrestle, fight, get into brawls. They don’t know how to express themselves in a physical, active way.” ~ Victoria Pratt
- “True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
- “You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.” ~ M. Scott Peck
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“My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.” ~ Hank Aaron
- “We need to practice acting in spite of fear, in spite of doubt, in spite of worry, in spite of uncertainty, in spite of inconvenience, in spite of discomfort, and even to practice acting when we’re not in the mood to act.” ~ T. Harv Eker
- “People need to wake up and realize that life doesn’t wait for you. If you want something, get up and go after it.” ~ Robert Kiyosaki , Life active quotes
- “As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.” ~ Bebe Moore Campbell
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“Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.” ~ Philip Zimbardo
- “You cannot pray for an A on a test and study for a B. You cannot pray for a celestial marriage and live a telestial life. You cannot pray for something and act less.” ~ Tad R. Callister
- “When you become active in the system and communicate to your representatives, and they don’t vote in accordance with your values, your responsibility is to support candidates who will.” ~ Joan Blades
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“I’m not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me” ~ Kathleen Turner
- “Flying is the only active profession I could ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.” ~ Wilfred Owen
- “As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.” ~ Lee Krasner
