Quotes About Vigor

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.

It has from the beginning been carried on with as much vigor and as great care of our trade as was consistent with our safety at home and with the circumstances we were in at the beginning of the war.

I am now in the full maturity of my age and vigor of my mind. Persons of various descriptions have repeatedly solicited me to turn my mind to dramatical composition. It was, indeed, the first amusement of my thoughts in my school-boy cell.

The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.

If it be true that our people represent a high percentage of mental vigor, the distinction is probably due, in some measure, to the extremely important part which Talmud studies have played in the spiritual life of the race.

As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.

If the economy can only provide a diminishing political dividend, Chinese leaders will encourage their people to feel pride and vigor in other ways.

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.

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.

I was a sickly child, and it wasn't until I was 19 that I realised I was quite a robust, vigorous person. Since then I've taken ill health to be an irritating interruption into what is a fairly reliable stream of good health.

For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.

I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.

A vigorous and profitable drug industry is not a problem to be solved but a goal to be encouraged.

We all want to feel spiritually vigorous, and we hurt when we don't. This pain is intensified for people who lead church ministries.

I'm reaching 87, trying to keep fit, presenting a vigorous figure, and it's an effort, and is it worth the effort? I laugh at myself trying to keep a bold front. It's become my habit. I just carry on.

I feel like I have to move violently once a day, or I'll lose my mind.

I'm virile, vigorous, and potent!

The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?

They [the President's aides] should be possessed of high competence, great physical vigor, and a passion for anonymity.

The difference 'twixt poet and coxcomb is precisely that the latter stops gaps like a ship fitter caulking seams, merely to keep the boat afloat, while the former doth his work as doth a man with a maid: he fills the gap, but with vigor, finesse, and care; there's beauty and delight as well as utility in his plugging

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.

I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.

There's a dance in the old dame yet.

I'm no porn star, but what I lack in size I make up for in speed. --- Harry McGlade