Vigorous
Possessing vigor; full of physical or mental strength or active force; strong; lusty; robust; as, a vigorous youth; a vigorous plant.
Exhibiting strength, either of body or mind; powerful; strong; forcible; energetic; as, vigorous exertions; a vigorous prosecution of a war.
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Vigorous Quotations
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
Charles Spurgeon
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
Herodotus
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
Eric Hoffer
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Samuel Johnson
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
Samuel Johnson
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.
George Santayana
Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop.
Albert Ellis
I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.
Sally Field
You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!
Jack LaLanne
For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
Lascelles Abercrombie
Vigorous Translations
vigorous in French is truculent
vigorous in Italian is benportante, energico
vigorous in Latin is vegetus
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