Quotes of Vigour - somelinesforyou

“ With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. ”

- Eleanor Roosevelt

“ Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tone the spirit just as exercise conditions the body. ”

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

“ The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is week. ”

- Bible

“ He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls. ”

- Taylor Caldwell

“ Grudge no expense — yield to no opposition — forget fatigue — till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome. ”

- Maria Weston Chapman

“ Might makes right. ”

- Aesop

“ When a man goes in the fullness of his strength upon any enterprise, how do his blood and spirits triumph beforehand! No motion of hand or foot is without a sensible delight. ”

- John Howe

“ The conscious water saw its God and blushed. - Richard Crashaw. ”

- Richard Crashaw

“ They had learned that the act of violence is the act of weakness, and that the spirit's strength lies in holding fast to the truth. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility. ”

- Gary Snyder

“ I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not too sure that it is right. ”

- Learned Hand

“ I don't look at this as a religious based thing. To me this is energy based. ”

- John Edward

“ Spirit has fifty times the strength and staying-power of brawn and muscle. ”

- Mark Twain

“ There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium, and be lost. The world will not have it… ”

- Martha Graham

“ The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot. ”

- William Ellery Channing

“ Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature, the devil, that so proud and powerful spirit, should be driven away, shamed and confounded. ”

- Martin Luther

“ The spirit that I have seen May be a devil, and the devil hath power T' assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect. ”

- George Boole

“ Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. ”

- Florence Nightingale

“ Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. ”

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

“ Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height. ”

- George Champman

“ It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh. ”

- Dorothee Soelle

“ The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth. ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand. ”

- Sue Patton Thoele

“ Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ”

- Plato
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