Personal Vigor Requires Courage
Personal vigor gives us the mental and moral strength to venture and persevere, as well as resist opposition, danger, and hardship. It brings to life the ingrained capacity for meeting strain or difficulty with fortitude and resilience. It supports a quality of temperament that enables us to hold our own when opposed or threatened. It fuels firm resolution and determination to achieve our goals and the tenacity to persist.
Vigor –
- Great physical or mental strength and energy
- Intensity or forcefulness in the way something is done
- The ability of plants or animals to survive, grow, and thrive
- Active strength or force
- Healthy physical or mental energy or power
- Vitality, energetic activity
- Energy
- Intensity
- Force of healthy growth in any living matter or organism, as a plant
- Active bodily or mental strength or force
- Active healthy well-balanced growth especially of intensity of action or effect
Vim –
- Exuberance: exuberant vitality and energy
- Robust energy and enthusiasm
Energy –
- The ability or power to work or make an effort
- Dynamic quality
- The capacity of acting or being active
- Intellectual energy
- A usually positive spiritual force
- The energy flowing through all people
- Vigorous exertion of power
- A fundamental entity of nature that is transferred between parts of a system in the production of physical change within the system and usually regarded as the capacity for doing work
- Usable power
Dynamism –
- A theory that all phenomena can be explained as manifestations of force of a dynamic or expansionist quality
- A vigorously active, forceful, and energizing quality, especially as the hallmark of somebody’s personality or approach to a task
Vitality –
- Liveliness
- Abundant physical and mental energy, usually combined with a wholehearted and joyous approach to situations and activities
- The ability of something to live and grow or to continue in existence
- Durability
- The peculiarity distinguishing the living from the nonliving
- Capacity to live and develop
- Physical or mental vigor especially when highly developed
- Enduring power
- Lively and animated character
Force –
- Natural strength: the power, strength, or energy that somebody or something possesses
- Physical power: effort, or violence used against somebody or something that resists
- The condition of being effective, valid, or applicable
- Somebody or something that has great power or influence, especially in a particular field
- Strength or energy exerted or brought to bear
- Cause of motion or change
- Active power
- The forces of nature
- The motivating force in her life
- Moral or mental strength
- Capacity to persuade or convince
Strength –
- The physical power to carry out demanding tasks
- Emotional toughness: the necessary qualities required to deal with stressful or painful situations
- The ability to resist attack <bacteria, viruses=””>
- The ability to withstand force, pressure, or stress
- The quality or state of being strong : capacity for exertion or endurance
- Power to resist force
- Toughness
- Power of resisting attack
- Degree of potency of effect or of concentration
- Vigor of expression
- One regarded as embodying or affording force or firmness
Heartiness –
- Sincere and expressive in a cheerful, enthusiastic way
- Done in an unrestrainedly loud, vigorous, but usually good-humored way
- Showing physical health, strength, and vigor
- Giving unqualified support
- Enthusiastically or exuberantly cordial
- Jovial
- Exhibiting vigorous good health
- Having a good appetite
- Abundant, rich, or flavorful enough to satisfy the appetite
Verve –
- Enthusiasm, energy, or spirit, especially in the expression of artistic ideas
- Lively vigorous spirit
- Special ability or talent
- The spirit and enthusiasm animating artistic composition or performance
Enthusiasm –
- Excited interest: passionate interest in or eagerness to do something
- Something that arouses a consuming interest
- Strong excitement of feeling ardor
- Something inspiring zeal or fervor
Vivacity, vivaciousness –
- Liveliness and high-spiritedness
- Lively in temper, conduct, or spirit
Gusto –
- Hearty enjoyment
- Lively enthusiasm or enjoyment
- An individual or special taste
- enthusiastic and vigorous enjoyment or appreciation
- Vitality marked by an abundance of vigor and enthusiasm
Spirit –
- The vital force that characterizes a human being as being alive
- Enthusiastic energy
- The enthusiastic loyalty
- Vigorous and animated disposition of mind or outlook
- The activating or essential principle influencing a person
- A special attitude or frame of mind
- A lively or brisk quality in a person and his/her actions
- Enthusiastic loyalty
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