Top 610 Active Quotes

My priority is to turn people – especially kids – on to sports and being active so they don’t even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me – it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.
Alan Thicke
Pluto is still active four and a half billion years into its history. It was expected that small planets like Pluto would cool off long ago and not still be showing geological activity. Pluto is, in fact, showing numerous examples of geological activity on a massive scale across the planet.
Alan Stern
I always loved watching films. I’ve always been active, pretending I was a Power Ranger or a Ninja Turtle. I remember watching ‘Toy Story.’ I think that was one of my first movies.
Trevante Rhodes
Why should someone be allowed to remain a voting member of the Academy if they are no longer active in the industry?
Roger Ross Williams
I was a proponent of the ERA. The women of my generation and my daughter’s generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter, according to the needs of the more or less unfolded consciousness connected with it. In the educated it is active and well-defined; in the undeveloped it is cloudy and inchoate.
Annie Besant
If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.
Brian Eno
I love being athletic and doing things that are active, even when I’m traveling.
Hill Harper
By maintaining an active feedback system at every stage of a startup, founders can reduce their burn rate, increase their virality coefficient, and retain key hires.
Jay Samit
Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school.
Georg Brandes
One is that we stand – my two confreres and I – in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.
Haldan Keffer Hartline
I’m a pro forma Bernie Sanders donor. In years past, when Michael Harrington was still alive, I was a very active member of Democratic Socialists of America.
David Garrow
I’m very active, wild woman.
Laura Schlessinger
As a family, we were always active. Lots of walking, lots of running as well as riding bikes with dad.
Alistair Brownlee
I’ve made a career writing about fictitious anti-heroes. To create these worlds, I’ve spent a lot of time with active members on both sides of the law. And if I had to pick the most interesting of the two, the choice is obvious – we all love the guys in black.
Kurt Sutter
No one can make you happy. No one can help you grow in life more than you can. I can love you to death, but I can only go so far. I can inspire and encourage you as much as I can, but when you play an active role to find that self-security and that self-worth, it makes the difference.
Musiq Soulchild
Your protagonist is your reader’s portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world you’re creating. They don’t have to be super-educated, they just have to be mentally active. Keep them looking, thinking, wondering, remembering.
Janet Fitch
I’ve been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.
Mackenzie Davis
As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to t

As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life.
Lee Haney
I love to draw and paint. I’m very active in that way, but I’m not very good with the written word, though.
Mackenzie Foy
I enjoy being active; it’s part of my lifestyle.
Sasha Roiz
Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.
Gordon W. Allport
You have to stay active; it keeps the bones flexible.
Maye Musk
Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there’s an idea that black men don’t want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
Gabrielle Union
Men should stay active and healthy, and even when they aren’t active, active wear is so comfortable.
Kendrick Sampson
In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.
Albert Bushnell Hart
I just keep active – everything that’s challenging me, everything that I feel like doing.
Gal Gadot
I’ve been a National Front member since I was 17, and active supporter for a long time.
Marion Marechal-Le Pen
The bottom line is that these athletes tend to be safer investments because they really value their marketing opportunities. They don’t make as much money as during their active careers.
Dick Butkus
I think it would be more beneficial to protection of species if we could focus our efforts rather than paint a broad-brush area that is so enormous that active management is very, very difficult.
David Ige
I’ve always loved being active, and I used to do sports – basketball, soccer, volleyball – growing up.
Lily Collins
We think the managed security services opportunity is enormous and so we have been an active participant and probably the largest firm in this space outside of an IBM or EDS, which does large outsourcing contracts.
John W. Thompson
Effective cybersecurity policy will depend on active and continued collaboration between public and private sectors.
Dan Lipinski
If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn’t eat lunch.
A. N. Wilson
A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
James Fenimore Cooper
Take a martial art or a sport, something that gives you a skill, engages the body, and allows you the possibility of being great – or at least being active. You’ll find your confidence. Without it, you’re nothing. It’s the remedy for everything.
Jason Statham
I’m active on Twitter, and I love my iPad and my Kindle.
Evgeny Morozov
I’ve always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I’m always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I’m super-active in that sense.
Taylor Lautner
There is no doubt that radium is transformed spontaneously into an active gas, radon, emitting at the same time alpha particles, or helions.
Frederic Joliot-Curie
Without effective states working with active and involved citizens, there is little chance for the growth that is needed to abolish global poverty.
Angus Deaton
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
I’m trying to keep my days very efficient, and I keep my set really tight. Every single corner is active, and everybody gets to thrive in the job that they do. I don’t waste people’s time.
Pamela Adlon
Deep in the human nature, there is an almost irresistible tendency to concentrate physical and mental energy on attempts at solving problems that seem to be unsolvable. Indeed, for some kinds of active people, only the seemingly unsolvable problems can arouse their interest.
Ragnar Frisch
My great-great-aunt was a terrorist. I’m not talking about the sense in which the pacifist Mahatma Gandhi was branded a terrorist by the British parliament in 1932: Pritilata Waddedar was an active participant in armed struggle against the British state. She supplied explosives. She fired a gun. And I’m proud of it.
Ash Sarkar
I try to stay positive and be very, very active.
Goldie Hawn
Who else is willing to fight Woodley at six weeks’ notice? Nobody. That’s why it’s come to me. But I will dethrone the champion and start a new era. I’ll be an active champion, so they can all get in line.
Darren Till
For a head of state presiding over a ruined economy, an active army with its low wages is god-sent: All he’s got to do is provide it with an objective.
Joseph Brodsky
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
With cycling, I can still be active and compete, and ultimately, that’s what I love to do, to be competitive.
Oksana Masters
My heart gets very tender when it comes to playing some

My heart gets very tender when it comes to playing someone who has wronged someone else. I almost feel like it’s easier for me to play having been wronged than it is to actually feel like you had an active part in hurting someone.
Jessica Capshaw
The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it.
Arthur Goldberg
I’ve been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children’s charities over the years.
Martina Navratilova
I think social media has reinvigorated people’s enthusiasm to be active and to engage.
Abi Morgan
I think with new president Chris Pook of CART, he is very active and strong.
Emerson Fittipaldi
I prefer active vacations. I really like the adventure aspect of it, and I also like a trip with intentions, where something will be gained on the other side of it. But I also like the option to just be there.
Abigail Spencer