Energy Quotes

"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal"

"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

"The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world"

Willa Cather, Author

"Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such"

Og Mandino, Author

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

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past"

Tom Peters, Businessman

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

Alexandra Paul, Actress

"It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui"

Helen Keller, Author

"A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"Virtue is reason which has become energy"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence"

William Blake, Poet

"There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy"

Ken Kesey, Author

"This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty"

Walter Scott, Novelist

"I mean, when you've had a problem in your past, whether it's attributed directly to high cholesterol or not, you want to lower your cholesterol. You want to eat healthy. You want to feel healthy. You want to have a little more energy"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer"

E. F. Schumacher, Economist

"Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it"

Michael Servetus, Scientist

"The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest school districts across the Nation offset these unexpected and challenging costs"

Joe Baca, Politician

"If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

"I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there"

Jonathan Lethem, Writer

"We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production"

Bobby Jindal, Politician

"So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"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 don't want to be there, it shows in the energy that you put out and in your actions"

Graham Nash, Musician

"I have improved the way in which I paint. The colours are cleaner and there is more energy in the brush work"

John Dyer, Artist

"Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature and my love of film"

Jonathan Lethem, Writer

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

Dwayne Johnson, Actor

"The Nation needs to take a new approach to our energy problems"

Bobby Jindal, Politician

"I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"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

"In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive"

Lee Iacocca, Businessman

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