Energy Quotes

"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

"It's so logical and so simple. Fat is the backup fuel system. The role it plays in the body is that when there's no carbohydrate around, fat will become the primary energy fuel. That's pretty well known"

Robert Atkins, Celebrity

"When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now"

Dan Hawkins, Musician

"For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy"

Voltaire, Writer

"Energy and persistence conquer all things"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"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

"The energy of the mind is the essence of life"

Aristotle, Philosopher

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

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"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

"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 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

"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

"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

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

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"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

"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

"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

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

Tom Peters, Businessman

"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

"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

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

Alexandra Paul, Actress

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

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"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

"Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"Virtue is reason which has become energy"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"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

"The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

"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

"Love is energy of life"

Robert Browning, Poet

"All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth"

Napoleon Hill, 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

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