Vigor Quotes

The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.

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

The story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf is not a meaningless fable. The founders of every State which has risen to eminence have drawn their nourishment and vigor from a similar wild source. It was because the children of the Empire were not suckled by the wolf that they were conquered and displaced by the children of the Northern forests who were.

Tolerate nothing in your life that might diminish your hunger for Gods word. Apply it w vigor & spiritual energy!

...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.

Awake, my soul! Stretch every nerve, And press with vigor on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown.

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

Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.

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.

Keep up your conjugal love in a constant heat and vigor. Love will suppress wrath: you cannot have a bitter mind upon small provocations, against those that you dearly love.

The specific course you decide upon is, within certain parameters, less important than the vigor with which you execute it.

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.

Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.

Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind.

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

He look'd in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.

Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character.

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.

Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor

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.

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

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.

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.

The strength of an individual is not in his extreme freedom and libertine lifestyle, but in the stalwartness of his character and his moral vigor. The society is made of individuals. What is true for an individual is also true for the society. A society that is not founded on moral values is doomed to fall.

Your vigor for life appalls me.

And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.

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.

The secret of my vigor and activity is that I have managed to have a lot of fun.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.

The spirits increase, vigor grows through a wound.

His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of the seas first demonstrated.

Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme.

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

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

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

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens to the end is silent: loudness is impotence.

The first thing a writer should be is - excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it'd be better for his health.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.

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.

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.

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.

The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer; and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.

The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure.

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

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

When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism and slavery.