William Ellery Channing Quotes About Energy

Quotes about: Energy

• All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

  William Ellery Channing

  Determination, Lying, Self

• The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

  William Ellery Channing

  Freedom, People, Giving

  William Ellery Channing (1837). “Essays, Literary & Political”, p.204

• Of all the discoveries which men need to make, the most important, at the present moment, is that of the self-forming power treasured up in themselves. They little suspect its extent, as little as the savage apprehends the energy which the mind is created to exert on the material world.

  William Ellery Channing

  Men, Discovery, Self

  William Ellery CHANNING (1839). “Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838”, p.6

• The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal

  William Ellery Channing

  Forever, Energy, Spirit

  William Ellery Channing (1884). “The complete works of W.E. Channing”

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