“The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking”
Samuel Johnson
“Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We have filed an appeal to the Connecticut Appellate Court and intend to prosecute our appeal vigorously. We are confident in our position on this. We do not expect a final decision on the matter in 2006.”
Joshua King
“The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.”
Colin Powell
“Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.”
Claudia Lady Bird Johnson
“When she speaks it is as if very thick olive oil is pouring vigorously over gravel chippings.”
Colin McDowell
“The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self.”
Charles Horton Cooley