Motivational Quotes

Enthusiasm

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Enthusiasm

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

Seabury, David

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything.

Carlyle, Thomas

The real secret to success is enthusiasm.

Chrysler, Walter

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

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

Wesley, John

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

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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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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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Enthusiasm will be as contagious as ever.

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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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It is energy -- the central element of which is will -- that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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People who never get carried away should be.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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The person who's not fired with enthusiasm, usually gets fired otherwise. A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

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Enthusiasm makes ordinary people extraordinary.

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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.

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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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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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Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.

Pele

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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No battle of any importance can be won without enthusiasm.

O'Brian, John Lord

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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

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Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine 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 execute your ideas.

Ford, Henry

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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.

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Enthusiasm moves the world.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Chester, Henry

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Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.