Vigor Quotes

179 quotes by 152 authors

Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller. — William Shakespeare
The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a… — Eric Hoffer
Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible. — Stephen Nachmanovitch
The secret of my vigor and activity is that I have managed to have a lot of fun. — Lowell Thomas
Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success,… — Albert Goodwill Spalding
The Anglo-Saxon has established himself in climates totally diverse - Canada, South Africa, and India - and, through several generations, has preserved his essential race… — Josiah Strong
Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character. — Theodore Roosevelt
The education of our people should be a lifelong process by which we continue to feed new vigor into the lifestream of the Nation through… — John F. Kennedy
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… — Oliver Goldsmith
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… — Ralph Cudworth
Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship. — Patrick Henry
Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor. — Eric Hoffer
Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. — Dean Koontz
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… — John Stuart Mill
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… — Colin Powell
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
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… — Sydney Smith
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. — Tacitus
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. — Leonardo da Vinci
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the… — Bertrand Russell

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