physical robustness Quotes

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.

The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the sentence. Indeed, the mind never makes a great and successful effort, without a corresponding energy of the body.

Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that of white men, and he recovers easily from wounds that would kill any European outright.

I was a sickly child, and it wasn't until I was 19 that I realised I was quite a robust, vigorous person. Since then I've taken ill health to be an irritating interruption into what is a fairly reliable stream of good health.

Stiff. That’s why you’re strong, get it? - Tobias Eaton

Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were.

The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length

Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.

Not less than two hours a day should be devoded to exercise, and weather should be little regarded. A person not sick will not be injured by getting wet. It is but taking a cold bath, which never gives a cold to any one. Brute animals are the most healthy, and they are exposed to all weather, and of men, those are healthiest who are the most exposed.

Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.

The older you get, the less physically and mentally robust you become.

Physical strength therefore is one of the first conditions of happiness and even of the existence of nations.

It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.