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Enthusiasm

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
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 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
Flaming enthusiasm backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.--Dale Carnegie
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.--Henry Adams (The Education of Henry Adams)
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)
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
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)
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 great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 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
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 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