Top 371 Vigorous Quotes & Sayings

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

Vigorous exercise will often fortify a feeble constitution.

A bold, vigorous assault has won many a faltering cause.

There is nothing inconsistent about having a conservative outlook and being vigorous.

The Netherlands believes in a vigorous Europe with a commission that is independent and robust.

In order to do vigorous oversight, the leadership of the intelligence community has got to be straight with the American people and straight with the Congress. For there to be vigorous oversight, the intelligence community's got to be straight with the American people and the Congress and that has not been the case.

There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.

Donald Trump is somebody who I think likes to mix it up and to have a vigorous debate.

Umpires are most vigorous when defending their miscalls.

True mindfulness is the awareness that everything you encounter is a vigorous expression of the same living universe as you.

We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences - "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery.

I think what Punjab needs today is vigorous economic development and rebuilding of trust and social cohesion.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking

A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts.

South Korea is a vigorous democracy, with strong judicial institutions and a commitment to the rule of law.

Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.

Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.

I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.

A fresh and vigorous weed, always renewed and renewing, it will cut its wondrous way through rubbish and rubble.

Be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

Puritanism was a youthful, vigorous movement.

I shall be active and vigorous even from the tomb.

One of the great reasons, I am sure, why [David O.] McKay has lived to such a good, ripe, and vigorous old age has been the fact that as a young man he developed habits of retiring to bed early, arising early, generally before sun up, when his mind was clear and his body vigorous, to do the day's work.

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise

If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

If we don't have a vigorous questioning, aggressive journalistic community and mythology, democracy itself is in great jeopardy.

The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.

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

Vigorous societies harbor a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications.

One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.

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

For humans and animals alike, truly vigorous, wholehearted, spontaneous play is something of a biological frill.

The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures.

For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

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

I'm virile, vigorous, and potent!

Vigorous writing is concise.

True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination.

We are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the President encourages vigorous debate.

My political career goes back to the '60s and those were times of vigorous debates.

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

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.

Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.

For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

WHAT WE NEED IN AMERICA TODAY IS A VIGOROUS RETURN TO THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS AND A MOST VIGOROUS DEFENSE AGAINST THE MINION OF GODLESSNESS AND ATHEISM.

Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.

Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.

People who are vigorous and brutal often find war enjoyable.

Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us.