Energetic Man Quotes

#1. And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.

Tycho Brahe

#2. An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.

Jules Verne

#3. Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?

Seneca The Younger

#4. Sirius was a brave, clever, and energetic man, and such men are not usually content to sit at home in hiding while they believe others to be in danger.

J.K. Rowling

#5. Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#6. A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

George Stillman Hillard

#7. Walter Cronkite was a personally decent and convivial man, who literally couldn't kill a fly, was kind to his children, generally helpful to juniors, authentically curious about the news, and, in his time, an energetic reporter.

Conrad Black

#8. My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can't have and wanting what you shouldn't want. And I shouldn't want you.

Cassandra Clare

#9. Energetic rumormonger who calls himself Dan Dan the Radio Man.

Ben H. Winters

#10. The best-laid plans of women and wolves...

Dominique Goodall

#11. And sometimes I misbehave on purpose."
"Seriously?!"
"It's called being a brat. Ben will sometimes indulge me [and punish me], but occasionally I have to listen to a lecture about asking for what I want. And those times, I get sent to bed without an orgasm.

Sierra Cartwright

#12. The presence of an active, energetic, successful man, or set of men, in a place, will permeate the place with positive vibrations that will stimulate all who abide there.

William Walker Atkinson

#13. So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.

William James

#14. Develop a sense of the brotherhood of man. Look upon each person as your own brother. There is only one caste, the caste of humanity. All of us belong to the human race, so everyone is equal. Therefore, love each one equally.

Sathya Sai Baba

#15. Language, any language, has a dual character: it is both a means of communication and a carrier of culture

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

#16. Man's first language, the most universal, the most energetic and the only language he needed before it was necessary to persuade men assembled together, is the cry of nature.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#17. Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles.

Eric Hoffer

#18. I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.

Alice Walker

#19. I don't know of any issues associated with alcohol before flight.

Ellen Ochoa

#20. I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it.

Jerome K. Jerome

#21. A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.

Benjamin Butler

#22. No charges have been filed by the L.A. district attorney's office, and for that I am appreciative. I have said it before, but we all make mistakes, and the day will come soon enough where you no longer read of mine in the tabloids.

Scott Stapp

#23. As an energetic Socialist, I do my best to see the good that is in him, but it's hard. Comrade Bristow's the most striking argument against the equality of man I've ever come across.

P.G. Wodehouse

#24. Literature is news which stays news.

Ezra Pound

#25. My dear Watson, you were born to be a man of action. Your instinct is always to do something energetic.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#26. The old man was brilliant at looking somber and energetic at the same time. If he hadn't been the executive of the largest governing body in the history of the human race, he'd have made a killing promoting health drinks.

James S.A. Corey