Awake, my soul! stretch every nerve.
And press with vigor on;
A heavenly race demands thy zeal.
And an immortal crown. [ Philip Doddridge ]
Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb. [ Byron ]
Sleep is a generous thief; he gives to vigor what he takes from time. [ Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania ]
Crimes succeed by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay. [ Tacitus ]
Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth. [ Virgil ]
It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor. [ Cicero ]
Reflection increases the vigor of the mind, as exercise does the strength of the body. [ Levis ]
I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications. [ Montaigne ]
By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution. [ Dr. Johnson ]
It is thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and gives health and vigor to the mind. [ T. Fuller ]
The race is won as much by the dexterity of the rider as by the vigor and fleetness of the animal. [ Earl of Bath ]
Infirmity and sickness may excite our pity; but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health. [ Rousseau ]
A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth. [ Stanislaus ]
Vigor is contagious; and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action. [ Emerson ]
Beauty, wit, high birth, vigor of bone, desert in service, love, friendship, charity, are subjects all to envious and calumniating time. [ William Shakespeare ]
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. [ Gibbon ]
Who in the same given time can produce more than many others, has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius. [ Lavater ]
Thou mayst as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. It is thought and digestion which make books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind. [ Thomas Fuller ]
Those people who are always improving never become great Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps. [ Hazlitt ]
Many classes are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the era of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the springtime of their hopes! [ C. Bingham ]
The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of limbs and features that strength and dignity of mind, and vigor and activity of body, which enables men to conceive and execute great actions. [ Burke ]
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness. He that shall walk with vigor three hours a day will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe. [ Johnson ]
The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue of Alexander appears to me with much less vigor in his theater than that of Socrates in his mean and obscure employment. I can easily conceive Socrates in the place of Alexander, but Alexander in that of Socrates I cannot. [ Montaigne ]
Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions. She scatters the seeds of genius to the winds, and though some may perish among the stony places of the world, and some may be choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity, yet others will now and then strike root even in the clefts of the rock, struggle bravely up into sunshine, and spread over their sterile birthplace all the beauties of vegetation. [ Washington Irving ]