Motivational Quotes

Enthusiasm

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

Best Quotes about Enthusiasm

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

If you aren't fired up with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Ford, Henry

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Arnold, H. W.

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

Stalker, James

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

Edwards, Tryon

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

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

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Enthusiasm moves the world.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Wesley, John

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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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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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No battle of any importance can be won without enthusiasm.

O'Brian, John Lord

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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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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National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius.

Tuckerman

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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: A little thing that makes a BIG difference.

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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.

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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 makes ordinary people extraordinary.

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