1. vigor - Noun
2. vigor - Verb
To invigorate.
Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action; as, a plant grows with vigor.
Strength; efficacy; potency.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIn composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. Sydney Smith
A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later. George S. Patton
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. Leonardo da Vinci
Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind. Margaret Fuller
A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay. Alfred North Whitehead
Corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; which loads us, more than millions of debt; which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution. Edmund Burke