Energy Quotes: Empowering Thoughts & Inspirations

"First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys"

Queen Elizabeth II, Royalty

"Thirty percent of the Nation's energy comes off the gulf coast"

Bobby Jindal, Politician

"The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing"

H. Stanley Judd, Author

"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich"

Sarah Bernhardt, Actress

"It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other"

Alex Noble

"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination"

Ralph Marston, Writer

"Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space"

Johnny Cash, Musician

"The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy"

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Actress

"If you're puzzled by what dark energy is, you're in good company"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"Now, China, India have set goals. We're going to be able to review what they're doing. We're going to be able to challenge them if they don't meet those goals. We're going to pursue this anyway, because the President understands that our future lies with a clean energy economy. We've doubled renewables this year. There are millions of jobs to be had there, more energy security, so we're going to pursue this"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"Oil and gas have been important drivers of Norway's economic growth, but we must invest in renewable energy and new technologies to secure a sustainable future"

Jens Stoltenberg, Politician

"Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

"The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be"

Lindsey Graham, Politician

"The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"I've got mad energy for days. That's what people can't get their minds around. They say, 'Oh, he's going to crash.' They try to apply all these common terms to a guy who is not common. I don't fit into their little box"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem"

Loretta Lynn, Musician

"Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

"People wonder if I'll always be a part of this family and the answer is yes. My family has a lot of good energy going in one direction and because of it, we get a lot of things done. That's why I'll always spend a lot of time at Camp Phoenix"

River Phoenix, Actor

"Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself"

Olivia Wilde, Actress

"When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy"

Dwayne Johnson, Actor

"Crime is naught but misdirected energy"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output"

Talib Kweli, Musician

"The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy"

Ezra Pound, Poet

"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started"

Norman Cousins, Author

"The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes"

William Feather, Author

"As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas"

Julian Bond, Activist

"All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least"

Richard Gere, Actor

"The sun stands for energy and youth, which is what I thought the circus should be about"

Guy Laliberte, Businessman

"I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't make it better. And the tour was a total mess. We just had no life, no energy, and I felt we were going through the motions"

Matt Cameron, Musician

"We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability"

Paul Gillmor, Politician

"We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one"

Paul Gillmor, Politician

"I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

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