Energy
82 quotes: 4 by Keith Craft, 78 from other voices.
Other voices on Energy
- Motivation is a battle for the heart, not just an appeal to the mind. Passion is always an expression of the soul.
- No amount of work is sufficient to weary me.
- No man is ever good for much who has not been carried off his feet by enthusiasm between twenty and thirty.
- No time for your health today, no health for your time tomorrow.
- Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
- Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.
- Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.
- Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We can attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we can persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
- Purpose directs energy, and purpose makes energy.
- Recovery is not negotiable. Make time to rest, rejuvenate, and recover now or make time to be sick, injured, and exhausted later.
- Remember that you have only so much energy and so much time. Every moment wasted on the dramas of others subtracts from your strength.
- Repose is the cradle of power.
- Resolved, To live with all my might, while I do live.
- Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means waste of time.
- Rest is the sweet sauce of labour.
- Resting is not a waste of time. It’s an investment in well-being. Relaxing is not a sign of laziness. It’s a source of energy.
- Strength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death.
- Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
- Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop
- Take the energy you are wasting feeling sorry for yourself and use it to help someone else.
- The fact is, I don't like to hear cut-and-dried sermons. No — when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees!
- The firefly only shines when on the wing; so is it with the mind; when once we rest, we darken.
- The Greeks have given us one of the most beautiful words of our language, the word "enthusiasm" — a God within. The grandeur of the acts of men are measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a God within.
- The less energy we waste regretting the past or worrying about the future, the more energy we will have for what’s in front of us.
- The more I learn, the more excited I get.
- The more I work, the more I want to work.
- The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
- The real difference between men is energy. A strong will, a settled purpose, an invincible determination, can accomplish almost anything; and in this lies the distinction between great men and little men.
- The secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
- The way to be original is to be healthy.
- The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere, lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralysed.
- There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and activity.
- There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.
- There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. … It gives warmth and good feeling to all your personal relationships.
- This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.
- This world belongs to the energetic.
- To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power.
- We live in a world that celebrates work and activity, ignores renewal and recovery, and fails to recognize that both are necessary for sustained high performance.
- We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
- What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.