Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Energy

I guess I am not naturally energetic. I like to sit around and talk.
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American Head of State, Lawyer

Work, every hour, paid or unpaid; see only that thou work and thou canst not escape thy reward. Whether thy work be fine or coarse, planting corn, or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses, as well as to the thought. The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism… It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer. The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will…
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Money is a lubricant. It lets you “slide” through life instead of having to “scrape” by. Money brings freedom—freedom to buy what you want , and freedom to do what you want with your time. Money allows you to enjoy the finer things in life as well as giving you the opportunity to help others have the necessities in life. Most of all, having money allows you not to have to spend your energy worrying about not having money.
T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability … it is energy.
Thomas Arnold (1795–1842) English Educationalist

Obviously, the real issue has nothing to do with fear itself, but, rather, how we hold the fear. For some, the fear is totally irrelevant. For others, it creates a state of paralysis. The former hold their fear from a position of power (choice, energy, and action), and the latter hold it from a position of pain (helplessness, depression, and paralysis).
Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author

And what is a man without energy? Nothing – nothing at all.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace — a connection to what matters.
Oprah Winfrey (b.1954) American TV Personality

If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.
Joyce Brothers (1927–2013) American Psychologist, Advice Columnist

Fasting is the first principle of medicine.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207–73) Persian Muslim Mystic

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
William Blake (1757–1827) English Poet, Painter, Printmaker

The longer I live, the more deeply am I convinced that that which makes the difference between one man and another—between the weak and powerful, the great and insignificant, is energy—invisible determination—a purpose once formed, and then death or victory.—This quality will do anything that is to be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make one a man without it.
Sir Thomas Buxton, 1st Baronet (1786–1845) English Politician, Social Reformer

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English Essayist

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar

Goals help you channel your energy into action.
Les Brown

Rich and successful people are solution-oriented; they spend their time and energy strategizing and planning the answers to challenges that come up, and creating systems to make certain that problem doesn’t occur again.
T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author

You see me in my most virile moment when you see me doing what I do. When I am directing, a special energy comes upon me … It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.
Federico Fellini (1920–93) Italian Filmmaker

Resolution is omnipotent.—Determine to be something in the world, and you will be something.—Aim at excellence, and excellence will be attained.—This is the great secret of effort and eminence.—“I cannot do it,” never accomplished anything; “I will try,” has wrought wonders.
Joel Hawes

Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.
Oprah Winfrey (b.1954) American TV Personality

Is it a fact—or have I dreamt it—that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–64) American Novelist, Short Story Writer

Energy is the only life, and is from the body; and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight.
William Blake (1757–1827) English Poet, Painter, Printmaker

Energy and persistence alter all things.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Denis Waitley (b.1933) American Motivational Speaker, Author

Genius is by definition a style of consciousness characterized by the ability to access high energy attractor patterns. It is not a personality characteristic. It is not something that a person has, nor even something that someone is. Those in whom we recognize genius commonly disclaim it. A universal characteristic of genius is humility. The genius has always attributed his insights to some higher influence.
David R. Hawkins (1913–2002) American Philosopher, Academic

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

Where attention goes, energy flows and results show.
T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author

This world belongs to the energetic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

When you become involved in a bigger energy motivated by the Group Higher Self, you are infused with power and purpose.
Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author

Under the rule of the free market ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis without an effective energy policy. Because of an easy and thoughtless reliance on imported oil, we have no adequate policy for the conservation of gasoline and other petroleum products. We have no adequate policy for the development or use of other, less harmful forms of energy. We have no adequate system of public transportation.
Wendell Berry (b.1934) American Poet, Novelist, Environmentalist

On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being the lowest, imagine you are a person with a level 2 strength of character and attitude looking at a level 5 problem. Would this problem appear to be big or little? From a level 2 perspective, a level 5 problem would seem like a big problem. Now imagine you’ve grown yourself and become a level 8 person. Would the same level 5 problem be a big problem or a little problem? Magically, the identical problem is now a little problem
Finally, imagine that you’ve really worked hard on yourself and become a level 10 person. Now, is this same level 5 problem a big problem or a little problem? The answer is that it’s no problem. It doesn’t even register in your brain as a problem. There’s no negative energy around it. It’s just a normal occurrence to handle, like brushing your teeth or getting dressed.
T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
Germaine Greer (b.1939) Australia Academic, Journalist, Scholar, Writer

Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian-American Electrical Engineer, Inventor

Perhaps the most distinguishing trait of visionary leaders is that they believe in a goal that benefits not only themselves, but others as well. It is such vision that attracts the psychic energy of other people, and makes them willing to work beyond the call of duty for the organization.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (b.1934) Hungarian-American Psychologist

Energy is contagious: either you affect people or you infect people.
T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author

If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.
Oprah Winfrey (b.1954) American TV Personality

Real wealth is ideas plus energy.
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American Inventor, Philosopher

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American Clergyman, Self-Help Author

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.
Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) Scottish-American Industrialist

The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American Actor, Rancher, Humorist

When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.
Vernon Howard (1918–92) American Spiritual Teacher, Philosopher

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.
Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian

In the yogic tradition, this principle of using intense effort to burn through life’s distractions is called Tapas. It’s another Sanskrit word, roughly defined as “heat” or “essential energy”. The concept is that through a disciplined approach to work and self-sacrifice, Tapas will burn away the negativity that separates us from God. By working our hardest and happily enduring the hardships of life we are able to create a sense of peace and clarity in ourselves.
Russell Simmons (b.1957) American Music Promoter

Are you willing to work sixteen hours a day? Rich people are. Are you willing to work seven days a week and five up most of your weekends? Rich people are. Are you willing to sacrifice seeing your family, your friends, and give up your recreations and hobbies? Rich people are. Are you willing to risk all your time, energy and start-up capital with no guarantee of returns? Rich people are.
T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author

Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

The truest wisdom, in general, is a resolute determination.
Napoleon I (1769–1821) Emperor of France

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
Denis Waitley (b.1933) American Motivational Speaker, Author

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven; the fated sky gives us free scope; only, doth backward pull our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple. Everything is possible.
Paulo Coelho (b.1947) Brazilian Songwriter, Novelist

To know oneself is the first step toward making flow a part of one’s entire life. But just as there is no free lunch in the material economy, nothing comes free in the psychic one. If one is not willing to invest psychic energy in the internal reality of consciousness, and instead squanders it in chasing external rewards, one loses mastery of one’s life, and ends up becoming a puppet of circumstances.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (b.1934) Hungarian-American Psychologist

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