Vigor quotes
79 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character."
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"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."
"Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor"
"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 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."
"And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability."
"The secret of my vigor and activity is that I have managed to have a lot of fun."
"The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body."
"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."
"The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor."
"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 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."
"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."
"Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor."
"The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while."
"By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution."
"Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth."
