quotes about Vigor
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Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.
-- Adam Carolla -
When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism and slavery.
-- August Bebel -
The spirits increase, vigor grows through a wound.
-- Aulus Gellius -
If we lose our heritage of health and vigor, all the beauty that has been achieved will be for naught!
-- Bill Munson -
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.
-- Christopher GadsdenSource : Christopher Gadsden (1966). “The Writings of Christopher Gadsden, 1746-1805”, Columbia : University of South Carolina Press
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To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude.
-- Confucius -
Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.
-- Dean Koontz -
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The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.
-- Diogenes -
Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.
-- G. Stanley Hall -
The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.
-- George Muller -
A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.
-- George S. Patton -
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Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage? Has it as many as religion? I doubt it. It is the only basic institution of modern man that shows any genuine health and vigor.
-- H. L. Mencken -
The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century.
-- Henry R. LuceSource : Life, 17 Feb. 1941
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The specific course you decide upon is, within certain parameters, less important than the vigor with which you execute it.
-- Jeff Cooper -
He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigor and decision. Who hastens to the end is silent; loudness is impotence.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
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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.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
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!
-- John ArmstrongSource : John Armstrong, John Aikin, William Andrus Alcott (1838). “The Art of Preserving Health: A Poem, in Four Books”, p.46
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The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
-- John Stuart Mill -
The Hermit was known to be pretty sniffy about disciples who returned in failure. There was a wall of the institute layered with their skins- an ingenious display that encouraged vigor in his students, as well as nicely keeping out the drafts.
-- Jonathan Stroud -
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Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
-- Joseph Addison -
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
The secret of my vigor and activity is that I have managed to have a lot of fun.
-- Lowell Thomas -
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
-- Martha Graham -
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Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.
-- Mencius -
Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat.
-- Michelle Malkin -
Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "Breeds pestilence.
-- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -
So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor; it feels very much closed in for various reasons.
-- Naoto KanSource : "Naoto Kan: 'Japan has lost its vigor'". www.cnn.com. November 17, 2010.
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The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.
-- Nicholas CulpeperSource : Nicholas Culpeper (1666). “The English Physitian Enlarged: With Three Hundred, Sixty and Nine Medicines, Made of English Herbs that Were Not in Any Impression Untill This, Being an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation ...”, p.275
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Let us bequeath our children more than the gadgets that surround us. If bicycling can be restored to the daily life of all Americans, it can be a vital step toward rebuilding health and vigor in all of us.
-- Paul Dudley White -
Awake, my soul! Stretch every nerve, And press with vigor on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown.
-- Philip DoddridgeSource : Philip Doddridge, John Doddridge HUMPHREYS (1839). “Scriptural Hymns ... New and corrected edition, containing many hymns never before printed. Edited ... by ... J. D. Humphreys, etc”, p.232
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Your vigor for life appalls me.
-- Robert CrumbSource : "Your Vigor for Life Appalls Me: The R. Crumb Letters 1958-1977". Book by Robert Crumb, 1998.
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Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible.
-- Stephen NachmanovitchSource : Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.84, Penguin
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We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.
-- Sylvia Pankhurst -
In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.
-- Vinoba Bhave -
The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
-- Walter Gilbert -
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If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and vigor, then there is something wrong with our colleges. The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow.
-- William Allen White -
...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.
-- William Strunk, Jr.Source : William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”
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Yoo's theory promotes frank discussion of the national interest and makes it harder for politicians to parade policy conflicts as constitutional crises. Most important, Yoo's approach offers a way to renew our political system's democratic vigor.
-- David B. Rivkin -
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.
-- Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz -