Vigorous Quotes

• If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

  John Heywood

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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• Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. Herodotus, historian If I had to name a driving force in my life, I'd name passion every time.

  Anita Roddick

  Giving Up, Passion, Men

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  Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

  Samuel Johnson

  Education, Curiosity, Genius

  The Rambler, No. 103, March 12, 1751.

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• A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

  Paul Dudley White

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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• Be vigorous and full of energy, and make ceaseless efforts. This means that little things do not discourage you and that you approach all things boldly and with an attitude of determination.

  Koichi Tohei

  Determination, Attitude, Mean

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• Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Inspirational, Flames, Knowledgeable Person

  Lady Bird Johnson (2007). “A White House Diary”, p.79, University of Texas Press

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• A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Shoes, Evil

  Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publications,Inc (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 83”, p.97, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

  Henry Watson Fowler

  Writing, Simple, Editing

  Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler (1931). “The King's English”, Oxford University Press

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• The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Life, Enthusiasm

  1750-2 In The Rambler.

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• To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Good Morning, Thinking, Sun

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.61, Graphic Arts Books

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• Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Travel, Passion

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.103

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• You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals, but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and don't take no for an answer.

  Nick Cannon

  Dream, People, Goal

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• We are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the President encourages vigorous debate.

  Karen Hughes

  Strong, Personality, President

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• Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

  Herodotus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• Let there be no mistake, Sen Sanders, his campaign and the vigorous debate that we've had about how to raise incomes, how to reduce inequality, increase upward mobility, has been very good for the Democratic Party and for America.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mistake, Party, America

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

  Billy Connolly

  Being Happy, Running, Adventure

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• The only way you're going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.

  Nikki Blonsky

  Basketball, Being Yourself, Diving

  "Nikki Blonsky Talks to Seventeen About Huge!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. July 1, 2010.

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• There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing

  Ranulph Fiennes

  Running, Adventure, Weather

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• There's a time and a place for getting a smart mouth.

  J. K. Rowling

  Smart, Freedom Of Speech, Mouths

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• There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

  John Ruskin

  Change, Running, Rainy Day

  "The Use Of Life". Book by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury. Chapter 4: "Recreation", 1894.

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• Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy.

  Virgil Goode

  Energy, United States, Alternatives

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• What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.

  Learned Hand

  Determination, May, Safe

  Learned Hand (1968). “The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand”

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• The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

  George Santayana

  Birthday, Passion, Pride

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.22, Рипол Классик

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• There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

  Bill Bowerman

  Funny, Motivational, Nike

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