Active Quotes

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  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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Apr 09, 2014

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• Stay alive, stay active, and get as much practice as you can.

  Frank Sinatra

  Practice, Alive, Staying Alive

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• Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

  Edith Hamilton

  Inspirational, Faith, Belief

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• The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

  Octavia Spencer

  Way, Proactive

  "Interview with Octavia Spencer of The Help". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. August 9, 2011.

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• I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

  Ian Botham

  Football, Running, Golf

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• What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.

  Millicent Fawcett

  Political, Movement, Women's Suffrage

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• In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Order, Should Have, Situation

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• I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.

  Herbert Croly

  Optimism, Literature, Mixtures

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There are not many roles where women are really active.

  Kathleen Quinlan

  Roles

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hate, Envy, Hatred

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• We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

  Les Brown

  Success, Dream, Determination

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• There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Literature, Action, Type

  Jerzy Kosinski (2012). “Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller”, p.270, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

  Sean O'Casey

  Life, Song, Insightful

  E. H. Mikhail, Sean O'Casey, John O'Riordan (1974). “The sting and the twinkle: conversations with Sean O'Casey”

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• I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

  Beverley Mitchell

  Learning, Thinking, Brain

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• Doubt is a lack of confidence or assurance that God will keep his promises. Faith is an active confidence that God's promises are always true.

  James MacDonald

  Doubt, Promise, Gods Will

  James MacDonald (2011). “Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard”, p.63, Moody Publishers

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• Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives.

  Tom Bosley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Depression

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

  Abraham Maslow

  Change, Baby, Growth

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• Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Beach, Ocean, Vacation

  "The Beach Book". Book by Gloria Steinem, 1963.

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• Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.

  Warren Buffett

  Views, Investing, Patient

  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. 1991.

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• To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

  Barack Obama

  Friends, Leather Jackets, Rocks

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.100, Canongate Books

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• You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

  M. Scott Peck

  Inspirational, Time, Communication

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

  James F. Cooper

  Reality, Law, Long

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• There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.

  Robert Ballard

  Ocean Exploration, Volcanoes, Order

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• When the question arose whether I, as a member of the royal family, should take part in active combat in the Falklands, there was no question in her mind, and it only took her two days to sort the issue.

  Prince Andrew

  War, Two, Issues

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.

  Jon Secada

  Strong, Real, Singing

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