Motivational Quotes

Enthusiasm

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

- Antrim, Minna

Best Quotes about Enthusiasm

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

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 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

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Pascal, Blaise

Enthusiasm: A little thing that makes a BIG difference.

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Charisma is the transference of enthusiasm.

Archbold, Ralph

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Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Hilton, Conrad

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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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If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Antrim, Minna

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National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius.

Tuckerman

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

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

Stalker, James

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Enthusiasm moves the world.

Balfour, Arthur James

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Enthusiasm makes ordinary people extraordinary.

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

Chester, Henry

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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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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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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 Spirit of God working with you.

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No battle of any importance can be won without enthusiasm.

O'Brian, John Lord

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People who never get carried away should be.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo