Vigor Quotations | Page 2

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.

A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.

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.

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.

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

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.

Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

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

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

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

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

Dear friends, sometimes we may be tempted to allow ourselves be overtaken by laziness or despondency, especially when faced with the hardships and trials of life. In these cases, do not lose heart, but invoke the Holy Spirit, so that with the gift of fortitude He can lift our hearts and communicate new vigor and enthusiasm to our lives and our following Jesus.

All vigor is contagious.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

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.

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.

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.

Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigor must allow some of it to pass with trifles.

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.

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.