Top 100 Our Energy Quotes
#1. We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.
Lenny Kravitz
#2. Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.
Natalie Goldberg
#3. With gas prices nationally, and especially in our area, increasingly on the rise, it is more crucial then ever that we take steps to diversify our energy sources and reduce our dependency on foreign oil.
Mary Bono
#4. All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.
Richard Gere
#5. Clearly, we need more incentives to quickly increase the use of wind and solar power; they will cut costs, increase our energy independence and our national security and reduce the consequences of global warming.
Hillary Clinton
#6. As we open our energy channels, we can cease the process of searching for love and begin the process of becoming an actual channel for love, allowing the force that drives the growth of flowers, summer rain, autumn wind, and winter snow to flow through us at the cellular level.
Catherine Carrigan
#7. We no longer have the luxury of spending our energy on anything that does not lead us and our families to Christ.
Sheri Dew
#8. When Buddhists say, "A bodhisattva fears not the result, but only the cause," they mean that we must expend the bulk of our energy planting good roots today, rather than fretting about the plants that are already growing from the roots we planted in the past.
Hsing Yun
#9. We're putting all of our energy into making it right. And we have already had several software updates. We've got a huge plan to make it even better. It will get better and better over time. We screwed up. That's the fact.
Tim Cook
#10. Let us not take offence over small cheese, let things slide off when they don't really matter, not take things personally, be free to make better use of our energy, to get on with something meaningful instead.
Jay Woodman
#11. I have to have faith that we're going to succeed in transforming where we get our energy from. The big worry is whether or not we're going to do it before it's too late. And I think nobody knows the answer to that.
Josh Fox
#12. New discoveries and production of resources like shale oil and gas are dramatically altering our energy supply outlook and the entire global geopolitical landscape. And the pace of change - particularly in the past few years - continues to accelerate.
Fred Upton
#13. We spend a great deal of our energy making sure that small businesses have help in navigating to the outcomes that they want.
Karen Mills
#14. When we struggle agains our energy we reject the source of wisdom. Anger without the fixation is none other than clear-seeing wisdom. Pride without fixation is experienced as equanimity. The energy of passion when it's free of grasping is wisdom that sees all the angles.
Pema Chodron
#15. The way to continue our fight now to accomplish the goals for which we stand is to take our energy, our passion, our strength and do all we can to help elect Barack Obama.
Hillary Clinton
#16. I know this about the American people: We welcome competition. We'll match our ingenuity, our energy, our experience and technology, our spirit and enterprise against anyone.
George H. W. Bush
#17. Unresolved grief is created when we don't allow ourselves to work through feelings as they arise. If we deny having painful feelings or put them on a shelf, they don't simply evaporate. Rather, unresolved feelings gnaw at our energy, prey on our emotions, and generally debilitate us.
Sue Patton Thoele
#18. Yoga aims to bring about a situation where the mind is quieter and more effective. It's not only about relaxation, it's also about improving our energy. It's about making us more decisive and at the same time better able to judge a situation clearly.
Paul Harvey
#19. Once the World Cup preparations begin there will hardly be an opportunity to do so, since we'll have to put all our energy into the team. We coaches have a list of priorities and dealing with the media isn't in the top five.
Jurgen Klinsmann
#20. I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.
David R. Brower
#21. Fear keeps our energy, intention, and focus in this realm. Time and again, souls come through and acknowledge that letting go of their fear was the key to transitioning smoothly. 2.
Tyler Henry
#22. Spirituality can not be separate from how we treat our bodies, construct our lifestyles, and keep our energy at higher levels.
James Redfield
#23. We were playing, not for the drunks, but for the musicians, because it was more intellectually challenging. We needed somewhere to put our energy to show that we were growing, and as we started to achieve this, people came to hear us musically.
Ronnie Hawkins
#24. There's no doubt, though, that fighting the good fight of faith takes energy! But then so do selfpity, anger, unforgiveness, and self-loathing. Each of us must decide where we're going to put our energy when the battle grows fierce.
Beth Moore
#25. Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results.
Phil Bredesen
#26. We need deep cleansing of our thoughts on and often so that we can recharge our energy for our own health, happiness and purpose
Kishore Bansal
#27. A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we're good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression.
Jane McGonigal
#29. The most important assets we have are our bodies and our energy which can be put to good use as resources in political activism for poor and working people.
Cornel West
#30. In Congress, I am a strong supporter of the New Apollo Energy Act. This plan would help to establish our energy independence, create jobs, and provide cleaner, reliable, and more affordable energy.
Allyson Schwartz
#31. Quantum Leap Thinking [is] an opportunity to get our energy out and target it in the direction of great productivity, leaving us with a feeling of accomplishment.
Leon Tec
#32. Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it's then, its continuing reality is entirely up to us, dependent on our energy and honesty.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#33. I think that the equator could act as a great equalizer for all life on Earth, celebrated as the great energy belt of the planet. If all our energy grids were synchronized, the light side of the planet could provide energy for the dark side, according to the movement of the sun.
Antony Gormley
#34. Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days.
David Suzuki
#35. Worry is a habit that shatters our peace of mind and needlessly drains our energy, a form of mental masturbation without any benefits.
Sue Patton Thoele
#36. I center down - I retreat, not inside myself, but outside myself. ... Self-forgetfulness is tremendously invigorating. I wonder if we don't waste most of our energy just by spending every waking minute saying hello to ourselves.
Annie Dillard
#37. Activity is intelligence. We follow our information systems and we use our energy to get it done. And that's caused by a byproduct called matter. That's why I call it "energetic matter." And it's chemical matter. We are chemistry.
Horst Rechelbacher
#38. Productivity, put simply, is the name we give our attempts to figure out the best uses of our energy, intellect, and time as we try to seize the most meaningful rewards with the least wasted effort. It's a process of learning how to succeed with less stress and struggle. It
Charles Duhigg
#39. When we start focusing our energy on the things we love, they come easier and more effortlessly over time.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
#40. We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of samsara - the cycle of suffering that comes from continuing to seek happiness in all the wrong places.
Pema Chodron
#42. Usually, when the distractions of daily life deplete our energy, the first thing we eliminate is the thing we eliminate is the thing we need the most: quiet, reflective time. Time to dream, time to contemplate what's working and what's not, so that we can make changes for the better. (January 17)
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#43. If we lean into what we love instead of soldiering toward what we 'should,' our pace quickens, our energy rises, optimism sets in. What we love is nutritious for us.
Julia Cameron
#44. Clinton understands that climate change is real, is caused by human activity and is one of the great environmental crises facing our planet. She knows that we must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels and move aggressively to energy efficiency and sustainable energy.
Bernie Sanders
#45. There are two ways to be rich: to have more or need less. It's estimated that we squander about 30 percent of our energy leaving the lights on, the refrigerator door open, and so on. Then there is the enormous amount of food that we expend huge amounts of energy to raise and then throw away.
Bill Nye
#46. There are people with vested interest who do not want us to reform our energy sector so that we remain dependent on imports. All reform moves are resisted. Bureaucrats are hesitant to take bold decisions.
Veerappa Moily
#47. Not only will the development of coal-to-liquid and environmentally friendly sequestration technologies increase our energy security, but these advancements will also help create better, higher-paying American jobs.
Peter Roskam
#48. The negative way of thinking based on constant complaints, strains, and objections of discontent steals our energy
Sunday Adelaja
#49. I hope that in future Congresses there will reemerge a recognition that climate change is a reality, that our policies to meet our energy needs must also deal responsibly with environmental issues, including the damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions.
Jeff Bingaman
#50. Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.
Pema Chodron
#51. If we choose to learn and grow from the things that happen to us, is it even necessary to guess at why they happened? What's a more productive use of our energy - searching for meaning outside ourselves or creating meaning within ourselves?
Lori Deschene
#52. It is very hard to stay in touch with our true identity because those who want our money, our time, and our energy profit more from our insecurity and fears than from our inner freedom.
Henri Nouwen
#53. Gas is by far and away the most important element of our energy policy.
Jim Ratcliffe
#54. Our goals are not achieved if all our energy given to us to achieve the goal and self-actualization is directed towards being accepted by our surroundings and to meet their requirements
Sunday Adelaja
#55. We should bloom like a flower without reservation or restriction, but with all our energy, power, and great love for this world.
Debasish Mridha
#56. Anger is a powerful, transformative emotion, one that can light the fire under us that propels us ever higher. However, the woman wasting time at the grocery story, the man cutting us off, the website that will not load are not the right targets for our energy.
Thomm Quackenbush
#57. Anxiety splits our energy between today's priorities and tomorrow's problems. Part of our mind is on the now; the rest is on the not yet. The result is half-minded living.
Max Lucado
#58. Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.
Sharon Salzberg
#59. Without movement there is no Life ... We should use our energy to the fullest.
Ai Qing
#60. Children don't just get milk from breastfeeding, they get our energy too.
Stephen Gaskin
#61. Shale gas represents a promising new potential energy resource for the UK. It could contribute significantly to our energy security, reducing our reliance on imported gas, as we move to a low-carbon economy.
Edward Davey
#62. The U.N.'s current projection is that humanity will number 9.3 billion individuals in 2050 and then hit 10.1 billion by 2100. Meanwhile, our energy resources are dwindling, and droughts threaten our food supplies.
Annalee Newitz
#63. We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs.
Ray Kurzweil
#64. Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.
William Hazlitt
#65. Hillary Clinton is listening to the scientists who tell us that - unless we act boldly and transform our energy system in the very near future - there will be more drought, more floods, more acidification of the oceans, more rising sea levels.
Bernie Sanders
#66. I think we're inevitably going to be depressed when we focus the major part of our energy and attention on something that doesn't give us meaning, only material things.
Sam Keen
#67. When we express appreciation, it means that we recognize the value of the other person's contribution to our relationship/ Each of us expends our energy and abilities in ways that benefit our relationship.
Gary Chapman
#68. When we approach the journey acknowledging what we do not know and what we can't control, we maintain our energy for the quest.
Sharon Salzberg
#69. Judge yourself and beware of passing judgement on others. In judging others we expend our energy to no purpose; we are often mistaken and easily sin. But if we judge ourselves our labour is always to our profit.
Thomas A Kempis
#70. What we're also looking at, if we do not transform our energy system, is more international war and conflict as countries fight over limited natural resources, including water and land to grow their crops.
Bernie Sanders
#71. Fear exists until the moment when the unavoidable happens, after that we must waste none of our energy on it.
Paulo Coelho
#72. By electrifying our lives, we reduce our energy costs by 39 percent, which is a huge savings in itself.
Mark Ruffalo
#73. Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy.
David Suzuki
#74. We pay attention to what our competitors do but it's not where we put our energy.
Brad Stone
#75. One of our energy strategies is to increase the CAFE standards to 35 miles per hour..
George W. Bush
#76. When there is conflict between us, we don't need to put our energy into fighting each other. We can combine forces to search for a solution that respects the needs of all parties. The child is an active participant in solving his problems. This will stand him in good stead in the years to come.
Joanna Faber
#77. Most of us waste our energy through chattering - endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#78. The idea was that the record itself ['The Bones Of What You Believe' ] is a kind of labour of love for us - all our energy and all our passion and all the stuff we believed in is in that record, so you're kind of handing that off to other people, if that makes sense.
Lauren Mayberry
#79. We fritter away our energy and creativity ...
we get bogged down in the thick of thin things.
Henry David Thoreau
#80. I also believe that Hurricane Katrina did reveal a weakness in our energy supply systems, highlighting the reliance this country has on the gulf coast for our energy resources.
Steve Buyer
#81. Art ... must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit.
Kenneth Clark
#82. We waste our energy fighting one another, instead of presenting a common front to the world.
Ayn Rand
#83. I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be an incredible thing.
Taylor Wilson
#84. When our identity comes from the self, then we keep our energy to ourselves. We feel energetic, we feel powerful, and we experience youthful vigor.
Deepak Chopra
#85. Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming.
Swami Vivekananda
#86. But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy.
Sherwood Boehlert
#87. Life is all business. Spend your energy to get joy, happiness, evolution, and to gain more ability to enjoy. In this field we spend our energy. We never use our time, energy, speech, or ability to do something that doesn't help us grow and improve our life. It's not worth it.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#88. The terrible part of this looming catastrophe is that people have been working on solutions for years and have developed concrete steps to massively reduce our energy use, while stimulating whole new industries and technologies that are more efficient and affordable.
David Suzuki
#89. We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy.
Michael Bloomberg
#90. The role of the animal messenger in the dreams of modern city-dwellers is often to recall us to our wild side, and the natural path of our energy.
Robert Moss
#91. physical distance between you is not at all important, because our energy is always leading us towards them.
Andrew M. Parsons
#92. We work with nutrition and exercise to increase our energy, but we ignore the richest source of energy we possess - our emotions.
Karla McLaren
#93. My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
Camille Paglia
#94. The Nation needs to take a new approach to our energy problems.
Bobby Jindal
#95. I warm up. I do about 50 push-ups with my trainer and my security just to get pumped up before a show, get our energy up. And then I just go have fun.
Joe Jonas
#96. Developing low carbon sources of energy supply will enhance our energy security
Charles Hendry
#97. I think we can say our energy system will be the most efficient and environmentally friendly in the world.
Angela Merkel
#98. The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.
Dan Lipinski
#99. First, we need good, stable relations with Russia. Second, we must make every effort to save energy and focus on using various sources to meet our energy needs. We must not allow ourselves to become dependent.
Angela Merkel
#100. I believe that what a woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly. What we fear is not so much that our energy may be leaking away through small outlets as that it may be going down the drain.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
