Awake, my soul! Stretch every nerve, And press with vigor on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown. — Philip Doddridge Copy Share Image
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
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
A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later. — George S. Patton 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
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
Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My opposition to war was not because of the horrors of war, not because war demands that the race offer up its… — Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch Copy Share Image
If you understand others you are smart. If you understand yourself you are illuminated. If you overcome others you are powerful. If… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Abstemiousness in diet and control of the passions, will preserve the intellect and give mental and moral vigor, enabling men to bring… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Fortunately for us and our world, youth is not easily discouraged. Youth with its clear vista and boundless faith and optimism is… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
People will remember that the Tea Party was co-opted and funded by billion-dollar corporations, and that it was supported by Fox News… — Henry Rollins 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
Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them.… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Integrity is unity of the personality; it implies being brutally honest with ourselves about our intentionality. Since intentionality is inextricably bound up… — Stephen A. Diamond Copy Share Image
Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Neoteny is more than retaining a youthful appearance, although that is often part of it. Neoteny is the retention of all those… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who… — Walter Millis Copy Share Image
Men and women, inspired by faith in man's dignity, goaded by conviction in man's responsibility, labored that this land might be a… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Everything will come right if you are pure and sincere. We want hundreds like you bursting upon society and bringing new life… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the… — Lawrence Welk Copy Share Image
Health is a presence of a superior state of wellbeing, a vigor, a vitality, a pizzazz you have to work for every… — Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz Copy Share Image
A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless with an animal vigor unlike that of any European crowd that I… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature. — Robert South Copy Share Image
All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigour unlike that of any European crowd that I… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and… — George Muller Copy Share Image
