Vigor Quotes - Page 5

• Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . . . It is a species of poison that causes madness. It does not make a man die, but it degrades him into a brute. Men may preserve their health and vigor without wine; with wine they run the risk of ruining their health and losing their morals.

  Francois Fenelon

  Running, Wine, Men

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• Turkey is not a part of Europe and will never be part of Europe ... The universal values which are in force in Europe, and which are fundamental values of Christianity, will lose vigor with the entry of a large Islamic country such as Turkey.

  Herman Van Rompuy

  Country, Islamic, Europe

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• The art of land doctoring is being practiced with vigor, but the science of land
  health is yet to be born.

  Aldo Leopold

  Art, Land, Born

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.230, Library of America

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• If you live for a very long while, you will have to watch your friends and loved ones die, your body age and lose its beauty and vigor, and your mental capacities fade.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Long

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• When the reality of power has been surrendered, it's playing a dangerous game to seek to retain the appearance of it; the external aspect of vigor can sometimes support a debilitated body, but most often it manages to deal it the final blow.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Blow, Power, Reality

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• A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its smell reminds us in vestigial ways of fertility, vigor, life-force, all the optimism, expectancy, and passionate bloom of youth. We inhale its ardent aroma and, no matter what our ages, we feel young and nubile in a world aflame with desire.

  Diane Ackerman

  Sex, Spring, Flower

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.13, Vintage

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• Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat.

  Michelle Malkin

  American Strength, Bureaucrats

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• So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor, it feels very much closed in for various reasons.

  Naoto Kan

  Country, Japan, Reason

  "Naoto Kan: 'Japan has lost its vigor'". www.cnn.com. November 17, 2010.

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• Reflection increases the vigor of the mind, as exercise does the strength of the body.

  Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis

  Exercise, Reflection, Mind

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• God has not chosen to save us without crosses; as He has not seen fit to create men at once in the full vigor of manhood, but has suffered them to grow up by degrees amid all the perils and weaknesses of youth.

  Francois Fenelon

  Growing Up, Men, Weakness

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• A strong life force can be seen in physical vitality, courage, competent judgment, self-mastery, sexual vigor, and the realization of each person's unique talents and purpose in life. To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.

  H. E Davey

  Strong, Powerful, Yoga

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• Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free States alone, if we must go on alone, will make a glorious nation. Twenty millions in the temperate zone, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, full of vigor, industry, inventive genius, educated, and moral; increasing by immigration rapidly, and, above all, free--all free--will form a confederacy of twenty States scarcely inferior in real power to the unfortunate Union of thirty-three States which we had on the first of November.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Real, War, Hands

  Rutherford B. Hayes (2016). “Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)”, p.4, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense of shame is to draw close to courage. He who knows these three things knows how to cultivate his own character. Knowing how to cultivate his own character, he knows how to govern other men. Knowing how to govern other men, he knows how to govern the world, its states, and its families.

  Confucius

  Character, Men, Practice

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• The Anglo-Saxon has established himself in climates totally diverse - Canada, South Africa, and India - and, through several generations, has preserved his essential race characteristics. He is not, of course, superior to climatic influences; but even in warm climates, he is likely to retain his aggressive vigor long enough to supplant races already enfeebled.

  Josiah Strong

  Race, Long, Generations

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• The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds them, more than to the gardens of men. There is something indescribably inspiriting and beautiful in the aspect of the forest skirting and occasionally jutting into the midst of new towns, which, like the sand-heaps of fresh fox-burrows, have sprung up in their midst. The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Nature, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.120, Xist Publishing

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stubbornness, Obstinacy, Stability

  "Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays".

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• It can be a fascinating game, noticing how any person with vitality and vigor will have a little splash of red in a costume, in a room, or in a garden.

  Edgar Cayce

  Garden, Color, Games

  Edgar Cayce (1986). “The Edgar Cayce Collection: Four Volumes in One”, Random House Value Publishing

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• Always man needs woman for his friend. He needs her clearer vision, her subtler insight, her softer thought, her winged soul, her pure and tender heart. Always woman needs man to be her friend. She needs the vigor of his purpose, the ardor of his will, his calmer judgment, his braver force of action, his reverence and his devotion.

  Mary C. Ames

  Heart, Men, Soul

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• In an overly materialistic world, prosperity is unfortunately and invariably associated with hoards of money and countless possessions. Yet to the truly prosperous people of this world, prosperity is prosperity in its purest and original sense. Prosperity comes from the Latin word "spes", which means "hope and vigor." To the truly prosperous person, being prosperous means being positive and happy in the moment.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Latin, Mean, People

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

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Character, Intellect

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• Little of beauty has America given the world save the rude grandeur God himself stamped on her bosom; the human spirit in this new world has expressed itself in vigor and ingenuity rather than in beauty.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  America, Rude, World

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2016). “The Souls of Black Folk”, p.207, First Avenue Editions

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• 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.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Doubt, Modern

  American Mercury, Aug. 1928

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

  Walter Gilbert

  Variation, Responsible, Genes

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• The mind, by its very nature, persistently tries to live forever, resisting age and attempting to give itself a form... . When a person passes his prime and his life begins to lose true vigor and charm, his mind starts functioning as if it were another form of life; it imitates what life does, eventually doing what life cannot do.

  Yukio Mishima

  Giving, Forever, Mind

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• That's what music should be like all the time. No stress, moving things forward, inspiring the youth, and doing it with style and vigor.

  Pharrell Williams

  Stress, Moving, Style

  Source: theneptunes.org

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