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

"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

"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

"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

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

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"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

"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

"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

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

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"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

"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

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

Ezra Pound, Poet

"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

"I think America understands that energy security is a very important part of our national security. But if we are going to address energy security in a meaningful way going forward, we need to do it in a new manner. We cannot just be doing the same old thing"

Chris Van Hollen, Politician

"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

"Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it is burned cleanly, coal can provide a resource to supply a large amount of our energy requirements"

Virgil Goode, Politician

"Gymnastics is the type of sport where you can't take something that gives you more energy. Something may be great for the vault, but then you have the bars after it and you have to be more sedate for that"

Shannon Miller, Athlete

"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

"From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too little, but just enough so people stay interested and stay involved in the characters"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"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

"Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market"

Gray Davis, Politician

"Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come"

Stefan Zweig, Writer

"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

"I think any actor would agree that you can't replace theater. It's immediate. You have the energy of the crowd and every single night it's different"

Austin Peck, Actor

"God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence"

Olympia Dukakis, Actress

"Here is my general approach to the energy companies. You have already charged the utilities a 50 percent credit penalty for the power they were buying from you. You're charging us a penalty. You're not going to get two bites of the apple here"

Gray Davis, Politician

"Our current energy policy is bankrupt"

Jim Costa, Politician

"Crime is naught but misdirected energy"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"I am with you heart and soul in the great cause to which you are devoting all your energy and your life"

Frank Leslie, Artist

"For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price - literally - at the pump and in their heating bills"

Chris Chocola, Politician

"Let's face it: if you and I have the same capabilities, the same energy, the same staff, if the only thing that's different between you and me is the products we can get, and I can get a better product than you, I'm going to be a better chef"

Thomas Keller, Celebrity

"The stock market can be down, but the stock market is not an indication of where people's spirits and enthusiam are, and where their intellectual energy is"

James Daly, Actor

"One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer"

Caroline Kennedy, Celebrity

"It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous"

Pierre Schaeffer, Composer

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