A Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Inaction Mind Vigor

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Leonardo da Vinci
Italian - Artist
April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

If you're throwing punches or exerting energy but you're not breathing, you're holding your breath. That actually saps your strength, it saps your stamina.

Chris Eubank Jr.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.

Emile M. Cioran

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Ralph Cudworth

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

William Godwin

It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Reflection increases the vigor of the mind, as exercise does the strength of the body.

Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Leonardo da Vinci

Inaction that results from indulgence is Procrastination. Inaction that results from intention is Patience.

Rory Vaden

The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.

Diogenes

Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor.