Vigor Quotes - Page 7

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

  Diogenes

  Practice, Mind, Body

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• Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Greatness, People

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1501, Delphi Classics

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• From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Moving, Fall, Men

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• Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result of persistent trials and experiments often performed at random but always attesting extraordinary vigor and resource. Starting from a few known elements, he would make their combinations and permutations, tabulate them and run through the whole list, completing test after test with incredible rapidity until he obtained a clue. His mind was dominated by one idea, to leave no stone unturned, to exhaust every possibility.

  Nikola Tesla

  Success, Running, Science

  "Tesla Says Edison Was an Empiricist". The New York Times, October 19, 1931.

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• It is in the Negev that the creativity and pioneer vigor of Israel shall be tested.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Creativity, Israel, Pioneers

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

  John Dryden

  Years, Looks, Green

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.850, Delphi Classics

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• This is the equivalent of an “internal shower”. As the spring freshness born of the heavy rains and vast masses of melting snows on mountains in the hinterlands cause rivers to swell and rush turbulently onward to the sea, so too will your blood flow with renewed vigor as the direct result of your faithfully performing the Contrology exercises.

  Joseph Pilates

  Spring, Rain, Exercise

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• 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.

  Henry R. Luce

  Degrees, World, Significant

  Life, 17 Feb. 1941

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• O sweet September, thy first breezes bring The dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter, The cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring And promise of exceeding joy hereafter.

  George Arnold

  Sweet, Laughter, Spring

  George Arnold (1867). “Poems Grave and Gay”, p.45

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• Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Father, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty'”, p.25, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

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• Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Looks, Able

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.107, Tara Publishing

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• 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.

  J. I. Packer

  Prayer, Matter, Praying

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• To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Life, Should Have, Years

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.153

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• Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; it loads us more than millions of debt; takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.

  Edmund Burke

  Spring, Shadow, Credit

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.174, Penguin

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• A topic is not interesting enough until it is multi layered. There is no vigor in a motive without many layers. One also learns quite a lot when one has been working on a difficult painting. That is my feeling. I believe that.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Believe, Interesting, Feelings

  Source: sturm-lie.be

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• It is a psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind; that is, we must register a vow with ourselves, we must make our resolution with vigor, with faith that we can do the thing we want to do; we must register our conviction with such intensity that the great creative forces within us will tend to realize them. Our impressions will become expressions just in proportion to the vigor with which we register our vows to accomplish our ambitions, to make our visions realities.

  Orison S. Marden

  Ambition, Reality, Expression

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• Without seeing any reason to believe that women are, on the average, so strong physically, intellectually, or morally, as men, I cannot shut my eyes to the fact that many women are much better endowed in all these respects than many men, and I am at a loss to understand on what grounds of justice or public policy a career which is open to the weakest and most foolish of the male sex should be forcibly closed to women of vigor and capacity.

  Thomas Huxley

  Strong, Sex, Women

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• 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.

  Ali Sina

  Fall, Character, Moral

  Source: myislam.dk

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• But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Animal, Quality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.34, Harvard University Press

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• We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required to make the effort. As if plainness and vigor and sincerity, the ornaments of style, were better learned on the farm and in the workshop than in the schools. The sentences written by such rude hands are nervous and tough, like hardened thongs, the sinews of the deer, or the roots of the pine.

  Henry David Thoreau

  School, Hard Work, Writing

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.385, Modern Library

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• Assurance of hope is more than life, it is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.

  J. C. Ryle

  Energy, Assurance, Activity

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• The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mean, Way, Obscure

  Michel de Montaigne, Charles Cotton (1711). “Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,”, p.29

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• The life and vigor of poetry consists of the fact that it steps out of itself, tears out a section of religion, then withdraws into itself to assimilate it. The same is true of philosophy.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Philosophy, Poetry, Tears

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• I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Friendship, Communication, Sharpness

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• Everything will come right if you are pure and sincere. We want hundreds like you bursting upon society and bringing new life and vigor of the spirit wherever they go.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, New Life, Want

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2794, Manonmani Publishers

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