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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. -- Dean Koontz
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship. -- Patrick Henry
Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children. -- G. Stanley Hall
If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come. -- Lawrence Welk
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. -- Tacitus
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within. -- Ralph Cudworth
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love. -- Alan Bleasdale
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance. -- Horace
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny. -- Colin Powell
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. -- Samuel Ullman
Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor. -- Eric Hoffer
It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor. -- Chiang Kai-shek
A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later. -- George S. Patton
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature. -- Robert South
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. -- Mencius
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. -- Confucius
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. -- Sydney Smith
The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of decay but rather a proof of health and vigor. -- H. L. Mencken
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. -- Joseph Addison
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor. -- Joseph Addison
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. -- John Stuart Mill
They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor. -- Eric Hoffer
Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success, American Vim, Vigor, Virility. -- Albert Goodwill Spalding
Keep up you conjugal love in constant heat and vigor. -- Richard Baxter
My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from. -- Nancy Astor
The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also. -- Nicholas Culpeper
The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh. -- John Owen
Do what is right... do it with honesty and vigor. Be creative - that's important. Don't follow what other people are doing. -- John Gokongwei
Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness. -- Italo Calvino
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor. -- Adam Carolla
Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength. -- Annie Besant
People will remember that the Tea Party was co-opted and funded by billion-dollar corporations, and that it was supported by Fox News and other outlets with the same vigor with which they attempt to denigrate the Occupy protesters. -- Henry Rollins
It is a medical fact that children can have a better chance in life with better looks, better health and more vigor if the teeth, nose, throat and mouth are taken proper care of at the crucial time of childhood. -- George Eastman
Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and good health that may ignore the caution of temperance. Youth is a period of timelessness when the horizons of age seem too distant to be noticed. -- Ezra Taft Benson
If you and I desire the blessings of life, of health, of vigor of body and mind; if we desire the destroying angel to pass us by, as he did in the days of the children of Israel, we must obey the Word of Wisdom; then God is bound, and the blessing shall come to us. -- Heber J. Grant
All vigor is contagious. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your vigor for life appalls me. -- Robert Crumb
Inaction saps the vigor of the mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor -- Seneca the Younger
The spirits increase, vigor grows through a wound. -- Aulus Gellius
Affliction strengthens the vigor of our soul, whereas happiness weakens it. -- Pope Gregory I
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay. -- Tacitus
Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth. -- Virgil
Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat. -- Michelle Malkin
Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability. -- Michel de Montaigne
A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor. -- Eric Hoffer
The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor. -- Eric Hoffer
Reflection increases the vigor of the mind, as exercise does the strength of the body. -- Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis
In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die. -- Cormac McCarthy
I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications. -- Michel de Montaigne
Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights. -- Khalil Gibran
It is in the Negev that the creativity and pioneer vigor of Israel shall be tested. -- David Ben-Gurion
He look'd in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green. -- John Dryden
Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference. -- Walter Scott
By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution. -- Samuel Johnson
Assurance of hope is more than life, it is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty. -- J. C. Ryle
We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor. -- Henry David Thoreau
...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor. -- William Strunk, Jr.
Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor. -- Walter Gilbert
The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor." -- Walter Gilbert
So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor; it feels very much closed in for various reasons. -- Naoto Kan
Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor. -- Joseph Addison
The secret of my vigor and activity is that I have managed to have a lot of fun. -- Lowell Thomas
Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. -- Henry David Thoreau
The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body. -- Diogenes
Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Tolerate nothing in your life that might diminish your hunger for Gods word. Apply it w vigor & spiritual energy! -- Sam Storms
If we lose our heritage of health and vigor, all the beauty that has been achieved will be for naught! -- Bill Munson
The specific course you decide upon is, within certain parameters, less important than the vigor with which you execute it. -- Jeff Cooper
Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor. -- Edgard Varese
Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation. -- Isaac Watts
A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have a renewed energy and vigor in our supporters and we are no longer so frightened about the future. -- Karen Kain
Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim. -- Lord Byron
I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America. -- Rebecca Solnit
The art of land doctoring is being practiced with vigor, but the science of land health is yet to be born. -- Aldo Leopold
Awake, my soul! Stretch every nerve, And press with vigor on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown. -- Philip Doddridge
Do what is right... do it with honesty and vigor. Be creative - thats important. Dont follow what other people are doing. -- John Gokongwei
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
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts. -- George Muller
Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller. -- William Shakespeare
In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor. -- Vinoba Bhave
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
To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth. -- StanisÅ?aw I LeszczyÅ?ski
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.
When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism and slavery. -- August Bebel
If the economy can only provide a diminishing political dividend, Chinese leaders will encourage their people to feel pride and vigor in other ways. -- Evan Osnos
When our identity comes from the self, then we keep our energy to ourselves. We feel energetic, we feel powerful, and we experience youthful vigor. -- Deepak Chopra
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
A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless with an animal vigor unlike that of any European crowd that I ever looked at. -- Ezra Pound
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. -- Samuel Johnson
Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit. -- Ambrose Bierce
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. -- Sylvia Pankhurst
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. -- Edward Gibbon
A country is as strong, really, as its citizens. And I think that mental and physical health - mental and physical vigor - go hand in hand. -- John F. Kennedy
Health is a presence of a superior state of wellbeing, a vigor, a vitality, a pizzazz you have to work for every single day of your life. -- Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz
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. -- Simone de Beauvoir
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. -- Isaac Newton
The blood, the fountain whence the spirits flow The generous stream that waters every part, And motion, vigor, and warm life conveys To every particle that moves or lives. -- John Armstrong
He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigor and decision. Who hastens to the end is silent; loudness is impotence. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
After all, hadn't she been the one to pursue him? And Madame Dupuy had done it with a vigor that most women would have been too ashamed to display. -- Rose Wynters
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
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love -- Charles-Victor de Bonstettin
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
Peevishness may be considered the canker of life, that destroys its vigor and checks its improvement; that creeps on with hourly depredations, and taints and vitiates what it cannot consume. -- Samuel Johnson
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. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success. -- Oliver Goldsmith
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
Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk, tenacity, tolerance, will power, chutzpah, and a good thesaurus. -- Peter McWilliams

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