Enthusiasm
- Alas! How enthusiasm decreases, as our experience increases!--Louise Colet
- Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.--Arnold Toynbee
- Do it big, do it right and do it with style.--Fred Astaire
- Enthusiasm is a divine possession.--Margaret E. Sanger
- Enthusiasm is contagious. Be a carrier.--Susan Rabin (How to Attract Anyone, Anytime, Anyplace)
- Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.--Isaac D'Israeli
- Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.--L. E. Landon (Ethel Churchill)
- Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed...--B. C. Forbes
- Enthusiasm is the element of success in everything. It is the light that leads and the strength that lifts people on and up in the great struggles of scientific pursuits and of professional labor. It robs endurance of difficulty, and makes pleasure of duty.--Bishop Doane
- Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.--Henry Chester
- Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to excite your ideas.--Henry Tor
- Enthusiasm, like measles, mumps and the common cold, is highly contagious.--Emory Ward
- Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes, another has it for thirty days--but it is the man that has it for thirty years who makes a success in life.--Unknown (The Catholic Layman)
- Faith and initiative rightly combined remove mountainous barriers and achieve the unheard and miraculous. An enthusiastic attitude is nothing more than faith in action.--Henry Chester
- A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.--John Muir
- Flaming enthusiasm backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.--Dale Carnegie
- Fun is fundamental, there is no way around it. You absolutely must have fun. Without fun, there is no enthusiasm. Without enthusiasm, there is no energy. Without energy, there are only shades of gray.--Doug Hall (Jump Start Your Brain)
- He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.--Henry Adams (The Education of Henry Adams)
- I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good, either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.-—Roald Dahl
- I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.--Charles Schwab
- I don't know about having too much zeal; but I think it is better the pot should boil over than not boil at all.--Anonymous
- I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.--Anatole France
- I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.--Sir Edward Appleton
- I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.--Henry Truman
- If we're not enthusiastic, we can't get things done. If we're over-enthusiastic, we run into the danger of being fanatical.--Woodrow Wyatt (on the television program Bernard Russell Speaks His Mind May 11, 1960)
- If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.--Eleanor Roosevelt
- In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.--Henry Ward Beecher (Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit)
- It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.--Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you've wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.--Charles Lindbergh
- I've just been so interested in what I was doing [genetic research] that I never thought of stopping.--Barbara McClintock
- Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.--Steve Droke
- Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times dull our enthusiasm. And that is dangerous, if not fatal, to our lives.--Norman Vincent Peale
- Live with passion. Live with enthusiasm. Live your best life.--Lailah Gifty Akita
- Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.--Steve Maraboli (Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience)
- A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.--Charles M. Schwab
- The measure of enthusiasm must be taken between interesting events. It is between bites that the lukewarm angler loses heart.--Edwin Way Teale
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires no one.--Mary Kay Ash (On People Management)
- The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.--Joyce Carey
- Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.--Charles A. Cerami
- None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.--Henry David Thoreau
- Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.--George R. Iles
- Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.—Friedrich Nietzsche
- Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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.--Edward Bulwer Lytton
- Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity and fear of others. Never decide to do nothing just because you can only do little. Do what you can. You would be surprised at what "little" acts have done for our world.--Steve Maraboli (Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience)
- The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.--Aldous Huxley
- Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire.--Fred Shero
- There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.--Nelson Mandela
- There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people.--Jan Ashford
- There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.--Norman Vincent Peale
- This world belongs to the enthusiastic.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Today is life - the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.--Dale Carnegie
- We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.--Charles Kinglsey
- Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.--P.T. Barnum
- Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.--Watterson Lowe
- You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. With it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.--Henry Ford
- You need to get up in the morning and say, "Boy, I'm going to--in my own stupid way--save the world today."--Carol Bellamy
- Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.--Thomas Fuller
- Zeal will do more than knowledge.--William Hazlitt
- Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.--Christian Dior
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