To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Assurance of hope is more than life, it is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
“a southern colloquialism for vim, vigor, or gumption. A man who stood firm in the face of adversity was said to have… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later. — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I think one of the great, great problems...is confusing people to the point where they become immobile. In fact, the more things… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
How I loathe the servitude people try to hold up to me as being so valuable. I pity the man who is… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
But I do say that, if you will regularly devote 15 minutes a day, preferably before breakfast, for 60 days to the… — Gene Tunney Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
In an overly materialistic world, prosperity is unfortunately and invariably associated with hoards of money and countless possessions. Yet to the truly… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
It is a common error, and the greater and more mischievous for being so common, to believe that repentance best becomes and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks,… — Samuel Ullman Copy Share Image
Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders.… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The blood, the fountain whence the spirits flow The generous stream that waters every part, And motion, vigor, and warm life conveys… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor… — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Tolerate nothing in your life that might diminish your hunger for Gods word. Apply it w vigor & spiritual energy! — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
We have a renewed energy and vigor in our supporters and we are no longer so frightened about the future. — Karen Kain Copy Share Image
The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor. — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
Do what is right... do it with honesty and vigor. Be creative - thats important. Dont follow what other people are doing. — John Gokongwei Copy Share Image
The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age… — Christopher Gadsden Copy Share Image
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Always man needs woman for his friend. He needs her clearer vision, her subtler insight, her softer thought, her winged soul, her… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure,… — Abraham Cahan Copy Share Image
Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I get more results for my money than in any other philanthropic scheme. It is a medical fact that children can have… — George Eastman Copy Share Image
