Quotes about energy (1852 quotes, page 19)

“It’s always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility. You can try to stop time, but it’s a complete waste of energy.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Aleph (2011)

World , Failure , Time , Success

“The Divine Energy is listening to us when we speak to other people, but also when we are still and silent and able to accept solitude as a blessing.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Solitude

People , Solitude

“Whether it is energy, time, talent or pleasure, only when you are overflowing can you really share it.”

Nithyananda (1978) Indian guru

Living Enlightenment

Pleasure , Time

“The energy disruptions of the Long Emergency are going to remind us that the skyscraper was an experimental building form.”

James Howard Kunstler book The Long Emergency

Source: The Long Emergency (2005), Chapter 7, p. 253.

“Campaigns are normally very, very social. Politics is absolutely a team sport. And doing all of these campaign activities from separate homes and not being able to gather … it’s far more challenging to feed off each other's energy, even on the Zoom call.”

Bowinn Ma (1985) Canadian politician

North Shore News https://www.nsnews.com/news/north-van-lonsdale-incumbent-ma-not-making-any-predictions-1.24226696, North Shore News: North Van-Lonsdale incumbent Ma not making any predictions, October 24, 2020

Home , Sport

“The unfoldment of the human consciousness is signalised sequentially by the recognition of life after life, of being after being, and the realisation that these lives are in themselves the sum total of all the potencies and energies whose will is to create and to manifest.”

Alice A. Bailey (1880–1949) esoteric, theosophist, writer

A Treatise on the Seven Rays: Volume 2: Esoteric Psychology II. 1942, p. 5

Life

“I like Hip-Hop music. I like electronic music. I like, you know - I can get a lot of energies from the young people.”

Cui Jian (1961) Chinese rock musician of Korean descent

Interview with CNN (2012)

People , Music

“Intuition is the energy of your being. When this pure energy starts flowing out from the unconscious level, it also heals you physically, mentally and emotionally. Apart from healing, it reduces stress and helps you to make decisions spontaneously.”

Nithyananda (1978) Indian guru

Guaranteed Solutions

Help , Decision

“Whenever you express love you become a channel for healing energy.”

Nithyananda (1978) Indian guru

Living Enlightenment

Love

“I've danced my whole life and I really just enjoy dancing and performing, which is probably why I'm an actress. I love performing and getting a reaction from the crowd and giving people energy.”

Jennifer Tisdale (1981) American actress

Source: TEEN TALKS TO: Jennifer and Ashley Tisdale https://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/movies-tv/a11654/jennifer-tisdale-interview/ (January 1, 2008)

People , Dance , Love , Life

“Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak. Then come back.
Don't worry. You won't have lost time. Your energy will be more direct and less wasted.”

Natalie Goldberg book Writing Down the Bones

Essay, "The Goody Two-Shoes Nature". p.140
Writing Down the Bones (1986)

Time , Waiting

“But I understand I have no right to give up, because people who are in jail didn't give up. They now are suffering for us. Only these people, the families of those repressed in Belarus, have given me the energy to go on.”

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (1982) Belarusian politician and educator

"Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya says 'harsh' sanctions needed" in DW https://www.dw.com/en/belarus-opposition-leader-sviatlana-tsikhanouskaya-says-harsh-sanctions-needed/a-57869000 (12 June 2021)

Family , Understanding , People , Suffering

“The only thing that is certain now is that we must focus all our energies solely on racial survival and allow no peripheral issues like argument over past institutions to divide our energies.”

David Lane (white nationalist) (1938–2007) American white supremacist, convicted felon

An Interview by Focus Fourteen with David lane
Focus Fourteen

Past

“At the end of the day, it would be wise to turn all of your focus and energy on achieving mental over physical strength.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“It doesn't take much energy to create the opportunities once you have gained the ability.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“The wise man always put more energy in his cause than the expected outcomes and I hope that, you will follow the same path advised by our ancestors.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Hope

“You will simply be wasting your energy by putting too much emphasis on the improvement of the body, while leaving the mind idle — leaving it to rot.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“We can think in other terms. The energy of Aquarius is the energy of synthesis. So the energies of Pisces have left us divided... it has given us tremendous qualities... for example of individuality.”

Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) artist, author, esotericist

The State of the World 2010, public lecture in New York City, USA, (July 2010)

Thinking

“We already convert sunlight into beamed energy and send it down to Earth. Except we use it to carry information rather than raw power. To deliver power requires a massive increase in scale, but not inventing new technology.”

Sheyene Gerardi Venezuelan actor and model

“[W]e must decide which choices in our lives really matter and focus our time and energy there, letting many other opportunities pass us by.”

Barry Schwartz book The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

The Paradox of Choice (2004)

Time

“[I]ncreased choice among goods and services may contribute little or nothing to the kind of freedom that counts. ...[I]t may impair freedom by taking time and energy we'd be better off devoting to other matters.”

Barry Schwartz book The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less

The Paradox of Choice (2004)

Freedom , Time

“Sex energy is the most powerful of all the stimuli which move people into action. Because it is the most powerful of the emotions, it must be controlled, through transmutation, and converted into other channels.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938)

People , Sex

“This earth, every one of the billions of individual cells of your body, and every atom of matter, began as an intangible form of energy.”

Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich

Think and Grow Rich (1938) p. 64

“At the level of luminous beings the range is so broad that it is futile to try to establish limits--thus, the energy of a luminous being can be transformed through will into anything.”

Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author

Source: The Eagle's Gift, (1981)

“What channels the energy of our total being to produce anything that might be within the boundaries of possibility is known as will.”

Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author

Source: The Eagle's Gift, (1981)

“A warrior never worries about his fear. Instead, he thinks about the wonders of "seeing" the flow of energy! The rest is frills, unimportant frills.”

Carlos Castaneda book The Wheel of Time

Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)

Thinking , Fear

“Control of the mind can be achieved by understanding yourself, the aim and the energy which is blocking us from progressing. Between God and the Self, the blocking energy is the ego.”

Baba Hari Dass (1923–2018) master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition

Mount Madonna Messenger

God , Understanding

“Material can follow a circular path, but energy can only add up. One of the challenges is that even "circular economy" needs "linear energy."”

Jean-Marc Jancovici (1962) French engineer and energy climate specialist

Source: "Energy: basic facts for an informed debate" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRAMA4mT0z0, 2012.

“In physics, energy has a very precise definition: it is what characterises something changing in the world surrounding us. [...] Counting energy is therefore nothing else than counting how much the world has changed.”

Jean-Marc Jancovici (1962) French engineer and energy climate specialist

Source: "Energy: basic facts for an informed debate" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRAMA4mT0z0, 2012.

World , Change

“God is Spirit in whom we "live, and move, and have our being." We are the offspring of this Spirit and can make conscious contact with it by turning our attention away from material things and thinking about Spirit. As we practice this kind of prayer our innate Spirit showers its life energies into our conscious mind and a great soul expansion follows.”

Charles Fillmore (1854–1948) American mystic

Source: Teach Us to Pray with Cora Fillmore (1941)

Soul , God , Thinking , Life

“The eyes of man can perform two functions: one is "seeing" energy at large as it flows in the universe and the other is "looking at things in this world." Neither of these functions is better than the other; however to train the eyes only to look is a shameful and unnecessary loss.”

Carlos Castaneda book The Wheel of Time

Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)

Universe , Training , World , Loss

“There's a loophole if you weigh galaxies and clusters because you're weighing the total amount of energy around galaxies. What if there's energy where galaxies aren't? What is where galaxies aren't? Nothing.”

Lawrence M. Krauss book A Universe from Nothing

"Lawrence Krauss: A Universe from Nothing" (2031)
Source: 23:32 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46sKeycH3bE&t=1412s

“Creativity doesn't require much time. But creativity always needs your energy. You can't create if you're pooped or your brain is full of junk. A person who manages creativity makes sure his schedule has lots of free spaces, no matter how many priorities are looming.”

Scott Adams book The Joy of Work

Source: Books, The Joy of Work (1998)

Personality , Time

“It's absolutely correct that climate and environmental movements should focus on systemic change and not on bamboo toothbrushes. It's mainly governments who control energy infrastructure. And yes governments should support community-owned energy initiatives.”

Carola Rackete (1988) German merchant navy captain

Source: Twitter https://twitter.com/CaroRackete/status/1274253317133271043 (20 June 2020)

Communication , Change , Support

“We support the complex approach that has been initiated in connection with sustainable energy for all, sustainable consumption and production, the elimination of hunger, and ensuring urban infrastructure development.”

Viktor Yanukovych (1950) Ukrainian politician who was the President of Ukraine

Source: "Speech at the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly" https://undocs.org/en/A/67/PV.9 (26 September 2012)

Hunger , Support

“In so many areas — agriculture, transport, energy, the water sector, multisector — the support we have been getting for years from the African Development Bank, up to more than one billion dollars, has been very vital for Ethiopia.”

Sahle-Work Zewde (1950) President of Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Source: Sahle-Work Zewde (2021) cited in: " Ethiopian President Sahle-Work Zewde and African Development Bank chief Akinwumi Adesina discuss Ethiopia’s development priorities https://www.afdb.org/en/news-and-events/press-releases/ethiopian-president-sahle-work-zewde-and-african-development-bank-chief-akinwumi-adesina-discuss-ethiopias-development-priorities-48018" in African Development Bank Group, 16 December 2021.

Water , Support

“The combination of rising inflation, energy crisis and COVID epidemic makes this (2021) the most difficult year for our citizens since our country came to existence.”

Petr Fiala (1964) Leader of the Civic Democratic Party (ODS)

Source: Petr Fiala (2022) cited in " New Czech centre-right government wins confidence vote in parliament https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2022/01/14/new-czech-centre-right-government-wins-confidence-vote-in-parliament" on The Star, 14 January 2022.

Country

“To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. "I will drink the ocean", says the persevering soul; "at my will mountains will crumble up." Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Source: Vedânta philosophy : Lectures by the Swâmi Vivekânanda on Râja Yoga (1899), Ch. VI : Pratyâhâra and Dhâraṇâm

Soul , Drink , Mountain , Perseverance

“Unless the French are thoroughly reduced, no solid peace can be obtained, and no attempt ought to be encouraged of opening a negotiation, which even has the effect of destroying all energy in those who ought to look forward to the continuance of war.”

George III of the United Kingdom (1738–1820) King of Great Britain and King of Ireland

Source: Letter to Lord Grenville (25 October 1795), quoted in The Manuscripts of J. B. Fortescue, Esq, Volume III (1899), p. 143

Peace , War

“Fear is a great enemy of man. It is the enemy of his progress. It disturbs his peace and harmony. It sucks or saps his vitality and energy. It drains the nervous system of its reserve of energy. It produces weakness.”

Swami Sivananda (1887–1963) Indian philosopher

Conquest of Fear (c-1960)

Fear , Peace

“If universal jurisdiction over our faithful is recognized to us, we can help foster this energy so that its strength is in the service of the universal Church. Otherwise what we lose the universal Church will lose.”

George Alencherry (1945) Catholic cardinal

“Ours is the faith of the apostles, handed down by St Thomas” http://www.30giorni.it/articoli_id_78071_l3.htm (2011)

Faith , Help , Universe

“Nowadays, many people are not focusing on gold medals, but sportsmanship, the positive energy in sportspeople.”

Chen Ruolin (1992) Chinese diver

"陈若琳：从“奥运五金王”到最年轻全国人大代表" http://zqb.cyol.com/html/2017-03/06/nw.D110000zgqnb_20170306_5-06.htm (6 March 2017)

People

“Environmental protection is both the objective and the basic content of sustainable development. Nowadays, climate change, environmental pollution, energy security, water security... have become global problems, but no one country can deal with them alone.”

Nguyễn Tấn Dũng (1949) Prime Minister of Vietnam

"Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng’s speech at the 4th National Conference on Environment" http://tapchimoitruong.vn/english-edition-i-2015-39/Prime-Minister-Nguy%E1%BB%85n-T%E1%BA%A5n-D%C5%A9ng%E2%80%99s-speech-at-the-4th-National-Conference-on-Environment-18093 (30 October 2015)

Water , Change , Country , Problem