Quotes summarize a message in a few words and remind us of important truths

More than 100 energy & personal leadership quotes

Hereby a selection of powerful inspiring and thought-provoking quotes. Quotes are able to summarize a message or an idea in just a few words. They provide interesting perspectives and remind us of important truths.

“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

Epictetus

“You will never rise any higher than the way you see yourselves.”

Robin Sharma

“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

Wayne Dyer

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

Aristotle

“Manage your energy, not your time.”

Harvard Business Review

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”

Confucius

“Energy is more valuable than intelligence. Health is more brilliant than gold.”

Robin Sharma

“What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.”

Helen Keller

“Where focus goes, energy flows.”

Tony Robbins

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

Leo Tolstoy

“What you do has far greater impact than what you say.”

Steven Covey

“Energy & persistence conquer all things.”

Benjamin Franklin

“And what is a man without energy? Nothing, nothing at all.”

Mark Twain

“An organization cannot evolve beyond its leadership’s stage of development.”

Unknown

“There is a direct link between energy and positive results.”

Joe Rogan

“If you're not leaving a trail of leaders behind you, you're not leading. You're following.”

Robin Sharma

“Living in anything but the now drains our energy.”

Unknown

“When there is no enemy inside, no enemy can hurt you.”

African proverb

“True learning takes energy, passion and a burning desire.”

Robert T. Kiyosaki

“There can be no greater gift than giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.”

Nelson Mandela

“Every thought has a frequency. Thoughts send out magnetic energy.”

Rhonda Byrne

“Passion is energy. Feel the power from focusing on what excites you.”

Oprah Winfrey

“Energy is transferable.”

Germany Kent

“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”

Roy T. Bennett

“Trust the vibes you get, energy does not lie.”

Old Saying

“You have power over your mind not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength.”

Marcus Aurelius

“Energy is contagious, positive and negative alike. I will forever be mindful of what and who I am allowing into my space.”

Alex Elle

“Your energy introduces you before you even speak.”

Maya Angelou

“When you are at peace you attract positive energy.”

Sen

“Life is not something that happens after the work week.”

Unknown

“The voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

Marcel Proust

“Happiness is not having what you want, it’s wanting what you have.”

Sheryl Crow

“Energy attracts like energy.”

Unknown

“Our level of true awareness is directly related to the lack of judging.”

Unknown

“Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.”

Tony Robbins

“Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.”

Haruki Murakami

“Each moment describes who you are and gives you the opportunity to decide if that’s who you want to be.”

Bruce D. Schneider

“Nothing means anything until you assign meaning to it.”

Tony Robbins

“When we know better we do better.”

Maya Angelou

“The body is a mirror of our inner thoughts and beliefs.”

Louise Hay

“Balance does not mean equal. Balance means enough of what is needed.”

Unknown

“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”

Lao-Tze

“What is given to you is given to share not to keep.”

Mother Teresa

“We have thoughts, feelings and emotions, but we are not our thoughts, feelings or emotions.”

Frances Vaughn

“When you change the way you look at things , the things you look at change.”

Wayne Dyer

“Mankind is so imprisoned in his type of thinking that he is simply incapable of fully understanding another standpoint.”

Carl Jung

“We do not see the world as it is, we see it as we are.”

Anais Nin

“What you resist will persist.”

Carl Jung

“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Maya Angelou

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”

The indigenous Canadian Haida nation

“Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.”

Helen Keller

“News is to the mind what sugar is to the body.”

Rolf Dobelli

“How we spend our days, is of course how we spend our lives.”

Annie Dillard

“Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.”

Nido Qubein

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

Helen Keller

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”

Helen Keller

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

Helen Keller

“We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.”

Helen Keller

“Victims have big tv’s. Leaders own large libraries.”

Wise Kitten

“When you are young, work to learn, not to earn.”

Robert Kiyosaki

“You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes everyday - unless you're too busy; then you should sit for an hour.”

Old Zen saying

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”

Albert Einstein

“Nothing happens until something moves.”

Albert Einstein

“Everything is made up of energy. To attract positive things, start giving positive energy.”

Celestina Chua

“The future depends on what you do today.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“Comparison is the thief of joy.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“You will have a life of loneliness if the desire to be loved and to belong is more important than your self-respect.”

Dodinsky

“When you know yourself, you are empowered. When you accept yourself, you are invincible.”

Tina Lifford

“Limitation is just a reality sold to you by a scared society.”

Unknown

“Determination, with an optimistic attitude is the key to success.”

Dalai Lama

“Nothing fails like success.”

Robin Sharma

“The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”

Stephen Covey

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”

Bill Keane

“An addiction to distraction is the end of creative production.”

Robin Sharma

“Change is a threat when done to us, but an opportunity when done by us.”

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“The seduction of safety is always more dangerous than the illusion of uncertainty.”

Robin Sharma

“Change is hard at first messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.”

Robin Sharma

“No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.”

Helen Keller

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

Helen Keller

“When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don’t see the one that has opened for us.”

Helen Keller

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”

Helen Keller

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”

Helen Keller

“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.”

Helen Keller

“Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.”

Helen Keller

“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”

Helen Keller

“While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.”

Helen Keller

“There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.”

Helen Keller

“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”

Helen Keller

“People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”

Helen Keller

“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”

Helen Keller

“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”

Helen Keller

“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”

Helen Keller

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to make the turn.”

Helen Keller

“It is better to follow the Voice inside and be at war with the whole world, than to follow the ways of the world and be at war with your deepest self”

Michael Pastore

“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.”

Forest Gump