Vigor Quotes

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

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.

My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.

A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

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.

We have a renewed energy and vigor in our supporters and we are no longer so frightened about the future.

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

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

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

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.

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

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

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war.

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.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

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

The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.

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.

Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.