Top 610 Active Quotes

When I get home from a heavy work day, I make sure I get outside with the kids. I don’t think there’s any better cure than being active as a family outside.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.
James Fenimore Cooper
I shall be active and vigorous even from the tomb.
Sai Baba
Historically, it has required a combination of favorable employment trends and active government intervention to lower the percentage of people in poverty and raise living standards for the working middle class.
Stephanie Coontz
My wife Kris and I enjoy keeping an active lifestyle, so it’s hard to imagine what it would be like if breathing problems kept me from participating in the activities I love to do. But that’s exactly what happens to many people who develop COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Caitlyn Jenner
The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I work out once a day. When I’m in a massive dance show mode, I’ll probably be active for about 20 hours each week.
Payal Kadakia
I’m always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I’m probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.
Daniel Johns
Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded.
Fritz Zwicky
Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops c

Without the Guard and Reserve, our active duty troops could hardly deploy.
John Spratt
Sadly, Princess Diana and I were just about the first divorced women to come under the global press’s microscope. But I have a feeling it’s a full and active club now.
Ivana Trump
As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.
Lee Krasner
Eating well and staying active is the necessary base to a clear complexion and a healthy body and mind.
Hannah Bronfman
I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I’m totally obsessed with technology. I’m always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.
Jodi Picoult
Honestly, I feel like inside my soul, I’m very anti-social media to a point where I realized that I need to be active in part because of my profession, but I delete all of the social media apps on my phone daily.
Kiana Madeira
When Gates was active in business, he was the smartest – so focused that no company could surpass Microsoft.
Masayoshi Son
I have stayed active. I do keep moving. But I should start swimming more. Great exercise.
Marv Levy
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
From casting to hiring to awards races like the Emmys, taking active steps toward inclusion will make for richer stories, a stronger democracy, and a better world.
Jay Duplass
But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I’ve had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable.
John Frankenheimer
I love sports. I love being active. I love challenging myself. I was a jock growing up from the time I could walk.
Lara Spencer
I believe there are two periods in life, one for the bike, the other for becoming active on one’s work.
Bernard Hinault
From the boys’ point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.
Robert Baden-Powell
To restore the American experiment in democratic self-government, religious believers need to redouble their civic efforts. For without our active participation in politics, the government will continue to trample on our rights. The Constitution does not prevent people of faith from being active in politics.
Edwin Meese
I got great sex education, and I always knew that if I wanted to be sexually active, I had to have safe sex.
Jenny Slate
Men’s moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any such effort as Christianity makes to constitute it the mainspring of all their conduct.
Lysander Spooner
I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active.
Niall Ferguson
It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree.
James Weldon Johnson
No veteran or active duty service member should endure a long hospital stay alone. Yet sadly, due to the high cost of travel, all too often our military families are separated while America’s heroes receive care. Sometimes families sleep in hospital parking lots, unable to afford long stays in a hotel.
John Delaney
At 11 years old, in 1968, my job was to deliver food on foot, so I spent my day walking around the city. I had an active imagination, jacked up by movies. I passed the time making up stories and serializing them.
George Pelecanos
I love being active.
Adam Rippon
The way I lived my life, I truly wasn’t an active resistance fighter.
Angela Merkel
I am a very active person. I have a lot of energy, and I love to be doing something physical all the time.
Tiffany Dupont
As the daughter of a civil rights leader, I believe in the power that compels people to stand up for their freedoms, for justice and opportunity. I know that marching inspires people to take an active role in creating positive change for a better America.
Lucy McBath
Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.
Barry Ritholtz
My brother was really smart, and I definitely had a little ADD – I was very creative and active – and my mom thought, ‘Why should I send them to school when they can work at a higher level at home?’
Vanessa Ray
The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through technical assistance and support from the developed countries.
Anna Lindh
I’m a person who’s always been politically active and passionate about people’s rights.
Kerry Washington
I am active in brain storming with our people, our strategists, in Thailand.
Thaksin Shinawatra
People often write after they finish their career, or they don’t play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let’s do it differently.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad

I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland; he’s 90 years old now, so he’s no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.
Claude Nicollier
We have quite a few political songs: ‘Channel Z,’ let’s ‘Keep This Party Going’ on. Our lyrics aren’t too hit-you-over-the-head, but they have political undertones. We’re active politically.
Kate Pierson
I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.
A. R. Rahman
We need a liberal agenda in which government resists the temptation to interfere in the lives of individuals but is equally determined to play an active role where creative action can advance the liberties of all.
Charles Kennedy
An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.
Robert Kiyosaki
America needs more fathers taking an active role in their children’s lives.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
My parents broke up when I was six. Before, I was a very active, naughty child, but after my father left me, I stopped talking. I became very good at hiding my emotions. I felt so ashamed of telling others that I didn’t have a father, because that was not common in the 1960s.
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
Slack spread through businesses like wildfire, initially in the tech and media sectors, but now much more widely. At its public launch in February 2014, it had 17,000 users. As of April 1st, 2016, that number had rocketed to 2.7 million daily active users.
Walt Mossberg
I mean you might say he had a travelling post office, but also Barney was very, very active. He was a legal officer for the NAACP and they had a lot of problems after Pease.
Betty Hill
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
Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program.
Louise Slaughter
Like many women, I stay active juggling many aspects of a very full life! I’m a busy mom. I also love to travel, garden, cook and volunteer at my kids school.
Jane Clayson
For individuals to become fully active in the Church, they generally must experience a spiritual conversion and a social integration.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
My parents were both lawyers and were very active in social causes when I was young.
Chris Connelly
It’s really tough to be an active member of your church when you travel so much, but that’s the stuff that keeps you going.
Andy Mineo