Vigor Quotes

Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme.

The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.

As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.

Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.

Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism and slavery.

When our identity comes from the self, then we keep our energy to ourselves. We feel energetic, we feel powerful, and we experience youthful vigor.

Health is a presence of a superior state of wellbeing, a vigor, a vitality, a pizzazz you have to work for every single day of your life.

It can be a fascinating game, noticing how any person with vitality and vigor will have a little splash of red in a costume, in a room, or in a garden.

The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure.

Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.

Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.

The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer; and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.

Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. The pain abates his vigor and takes up too much of his attention.

He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces him of his error, commands our veneration.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.

The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.

To pray is to cast off your burdens, it is to tear away your rags, it is to shake off your diseases, it is to be filled with spiritual vigor, it is to reach the highest point of Christian health.

Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor.

The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but rather a proof of health and vigor.

By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution.

The art of land doctoring is being practiced with vigor, but the science of land health is yet to be born.

If we lose our heritage of health and vigor, all the beauty that has been achieved will be for naught!

When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.

Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat.

Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth.

In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.

The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.

Reflection increases the vigor of the mind, as exercise does the strength of the body.

If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade.

The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams.

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

Assurance of hope is more than life, it is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.

How sickly grow, How pale, the plants in those ill-fated vales That, circled round with the gigantic heap Of mountains, never felt, nor ever hope To feel, the genial vigor of the sun!

The blood, the fountain whence the spirits flow The generous stream that waters every part, And motion, vigor, and warm life conveys To every particle that moves or lives.

The life and vigor of poetry consists of the fact that it steps out of itself, tears out a section of religion, then withdraws into itself to assimilate it. The same is true of philosophy.

Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.

So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor, it feels very much closed in for various reasons.

The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.

If you're blessed enough to grow older, which is how I look at aging, there's so much wisdom to be gained from people who are celebrating the process with vibrancy and vigor and grace.

All vigor is contagious.