"The more we work the more we need to pray. In this day of activity there is great danger, not of doing too much, but of praying too little for so much work."

--- Alexander MacLaren

"The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make."

--- Aristotle

"The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads."

--- Walter Pater

"I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals."

--- Bonnie Blair

"Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen."

--- Shunryu Suzuki

"Many people are shy when it comes to getting out on a dance floor. Dancing is an activity that... reveals your inner self, whether you like it, or know it, or not. It is hard to fake it on a dance floor."

--- Dirk Benedict

"I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances."

--- Dixie Lee Ray

"By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision."

--- Robert Henri

"Every noble activity makes room for itself."

--- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is in the very heart of our activity that we search for our goal."

--- Rabindranath Tagore

"Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good."

--- Hannah More

"Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community."

--- Jean Vanier

"The activity of the child has always been looked upon as an expression of his vitality."

--- Maria Montessori

"Without speculation there can be no economic activity reaching beyond the immediate present."

--- Ludwig von Mises

"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."

--- Letty Cottin Pogrebin