Motivational Quotes

Enthusiasm

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Enthusiasm

The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American.

Lapham, Lewis H.

Why were the saints, saints? Because they were cheerful when it was difficult to be cheerful, patient when it was difficult to be patient; and because they pushed on when they wanted to stand still, and kept silent when they wanted to talk, and were agreeable when they wanted to be disagreeable. That was all. It was quite simple and always will be.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Carnegie, Dale

How poor a guide enthusiasm is when it is not informed with the mind and spirit of God.

Stalker, James

Enthusiasm. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Bierce, Ambrose

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Baldwin, James

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

Erasmus, Desiderius

Enthusiasm moves the world.

Balfour, Arthur James

Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it. They will go for you and with you.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

Stael, Germaine De

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Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power and influence.

Chester, Henry

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Enthusiasm makes ordinary people extraordinary.

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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

France, Anatole

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In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

Seabury, David

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There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.

Akhenaton

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Enthusiasm is the Spirit of God working with you.

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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first.

Leach, Reggie

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Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.

Wesley, John

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Enthusiasm is: A quiet spiritual strength: An inner glow: Faith in action: Greatest asset in the world: Beats money power influence: Tramples over prejudice.

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The real secret to success is enthusiasm.

Chrysler, Walter

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No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.

Froude, James A.

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Enthusiasm: A little thing that makes a BIG difference.

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The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.

Waitley, Denis

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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Carnegie, Dale

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Enthusiasm is contagious.You can start an epidemic.

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He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you as a hair clasp gathers the hair.

I Ching

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Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

Smiles, Samuel

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All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.

Channing, William Ellery

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Be ENTHUSIASTIC as a leader. You can't light a fire with a wet match!

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Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

Antrim, Minna

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Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.

Hilton, Conrad

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Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Nightingale, Earl

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Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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Enthusiasm is a telescope that yanks the misty, distant future into the radiant, tangible present.

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No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.

Cowper, William

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Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles.

Mandino, Og

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National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius.

Tuckerman

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The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.

Arnold, H. W.

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The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to get by.