Quotes About Vigor

I like to run, to go down the stairs, I'm one of those kind of people.

I have stamina, and I have energy.

Whatever I lack in talent I have in stamina.

To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck.

It was then given me to know that the power of revitalization of my body was mine, and I, who had been pronounced dead by man, lived strongly in the body.

And what is a man without energy? Nothing - nothing at all.

To create order amidst this chaos did not require either brilliance of conception or a mighty display of force, but it required a clear insight into the interests of Rome and of her subjects, and vigor and consistency in establishing and maintaining the institutions recognized as necessary.

My nickname is Nuke.

What could be more intimate, more placental? This steamy, candlelit cradle she'd made use, twins tied in the womb. Grooming each other, letting the soil and torment that is the world's indifference disappear down the drain. Here, at last, was my partner. Tucked behind the wet walls of our sanctum. Here we could gleam anew with infant vigor, could refuel each other...with the will to believe again.

Soon became convinced I was right and undertook the task with all the fire and boundless confidence of youth.

stirring up the kind of energy they hadn't summoned since before Oliver was born, the kind of energy that could power a mountain village for the better part of a year, the kind of energy that reminded them both that their love was vigorous and eternal, lust-slick and heart-strong, as bright as starlight, as loud as thunder, and dirtier than a gas station bathroom.

to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.

two eyes and a foot of engorged brawn—to mention only mentionable matters

If you understand others you are smart. If you understand yourself you are illuminated. If you overcome others you are powerful. If you overcome yourself you have strength. If you know how to be satisfied you are rich. If you can act with vigor, you have a will. If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting. If you die without loss, you are eternal.

Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.

Louie and Phil's hope displaced their fear and inspired them to work toward their survival, and each success renewed their physical and emotional vigor. Mac's resignation seemed to paralyze him, and the less he participated in their efforts to survive, the more he slipped. Though he did the least, as the days passed, it was he who faded the most. Louie and Phil's optimism, and Mac's hopelessness, were becoming self-fulfilling.

Mi piace il contrasto. È solamente nei contrasti che l'uomo si sente più forte, superiore al proprio corpo. Senza contrasti la vita è banale.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.

Mr. Pickwick was no sluggard, and he sprang like an ardent warrior from his tent-bedstead.

We are so attuned to rhythms, to night and day, to fall, winter, spring and summer, year in and year out; to childhood, maturity, and old age; to the very beat of our hearts. Women, in particular, feel the ebb and flow of vigor every month of their reproductive years.

...he certainly made those long legs go! Hoppity-skip he went, hoppity-skip, down the street, and around the corner...

Literature is the product of life. Life is its soil. And the richness or poverty of the soil determines whether a work of literature is vigorous or feeble. A great tree will not grow from barren land; only rich soil and clear water will enable it to flourish.

If you're going to do foolish things, do them with enthusiasm.