Vigor Quotes

The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

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.

Tolerate nothing in your life that might diminish your hunger for Gods word. Apply it w vigor & spiritual energy!

...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.

Awake, my soul! Stretch every nerve, And press with vigor on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown.

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

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.

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.

Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind.

Keep up your conjugal love in a constant heat and vigor. Love will suppress wrath: you cannot have a bitter mind upon small provocations, against those that you dearly love.

The specific course you decide upon is, within certain parameters, less important than the vigor with which you execute it.

Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.

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.

In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.

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

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

It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating.

Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor

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.

Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "Breeds pestilence.

The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.

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.