Fuel quotes
278 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"The inner master, when confronted with an obstacle, uses it as fuel, like a fire which consumes things that are thrown into it. A small lamp would be snuffed out, but a big fire will engulf what is thrown at it and burn hotter; it consumes the obstacle and uses it to reach a higher level."
"My advice is find fuel in failure. Sometimes failure gets you closer to where you want to be."
"When we meet grace, it becomes the fuel of our faith. We pray, we read our Bibles, we worship and we live the purest lifestyle we can because we love a person."
"We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no tomorrow."
"Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself."
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"What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return"
"Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe"
"As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops."
"Don't feed the trolls; nothing fuels them so much."
"Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement."
"Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire."
"Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily lives."
"Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other."
"It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel."
"I know just enough about thermodynamics to understand that if it takes too much fossil-fuel energy to create ethanol, that's a very stupid way to solve an energy problem."
"Scores of studies have shown that venting doesn't soothe anger; it fuels it."
"Encouragement is the fuel on which hope runs."
"Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creative, dynamic tension and energy that generates and fuels the making of human social life and social structures…. It is real human persons living through the tensions of natural existential contradictions who construct patterned social meanings, interactions, institutions, and structures."
"On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight."
"This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope."
"The world must come together to confront climate change. There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we will face more drought, famine and mass displacement that will fuel more conflict for decades."
"Stardom is no longer the fuel of my soul. It is the deeper aspects of life that nurture me. And I realise I am very blessed."
"There are systems that use failure as fuel for improvement, where the cost of failure is small."
"If we're going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we're going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them and release more dangerous pollution into the sky."
"You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place."
